Viv Martin - Imagery and Identity Construction in Illness Narratives: Negotiating Loss and Transformation

Q & A

Becoming Bodies - Beatrice Allegranti

Q & A

Layla Smith - Part of You, Part of Me

Beatrice Allegranti and Jonathan Wyatt - Performing Our Losses Into Being

Gerry Harrison with MA DMP students - Embodied Psychopathology

Marina Rova - Silent Story, Dancer: Tasha Colbert

Bonnie Meekums - Lost Bodies

Installation by Neil Max Emmanuel

Geoffery Unkovich - Lost Words

Reflections on the Symposium

Thank you to all the presenters, performers and audience for an inspirational event on the 20th June. We will be posting feedback and a short film with highlights of the event over the next month.

Three days to go!

This is your very last chance to book a place on the Embodying Loss Symposium at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios (Wednesday the 20th of June, 12-6pm). Please follow Online Store to make your booking online as NO CASH WILL BE ACCEPTED on the day! Only a few spaces left now for what promises to be a very inspiring event...

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Our online booking system has been restored! Follow our online store link to book your place. One week to go for the Symposium and still a few spaces available!

Technical issue with booking system

Our online booking system is still down. Please bear with us while we try to resolve the issue. We are hoping to have the system back up and running in the next couple of days. We are also extending our closing date to allow everyone to book online. Spaces are still available.

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It has been reported that our online booking system is temporarily down. Please continue to visit our online store system and keep us updated on your progress via email: embodyingloss.symposium@gmail.com. The problem has been reported to our systems team and hopefully will be rectified as soon as possible. We have extended our closing date for booking on the symposium to allow everyone to book their place. Please bear with us while we attend to this issue.

List of presentations and performances

CATR Embodying Loss Symposium

at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, 20th June

Presentations

Dr Bonnie Meekums: Lost Bodies (extract from autoethnographic study)

Doe Warnes: Anatomical perspective on loss (blending Western anatomical concepts and Chinese medicine)

Dr Viv Martin: Imagery and identity construction in illness narratives – negotiating loss and transformation

Dr Jeannie Wright: Writing as therapy (autoethnography)

Dr Beatrice Allegranti and Dr Jonathan Wyatt: Performing our losses into being

Gerry Harrison: Embodied Psychopathology and loss

Dr Caroline Hoffman: Mindfullness and loss in the context of Cancer Care
Mitzi Blennerhassett: Never mind (experience of cancer and loss)

Performances

Geoffery Unkovich: Lost Words

Marina Rova: Silent Story (performed by Tasha Colbert)

Screenings

Layla Smith: filmed dance solo of illness and loss in a father-daughter relationship

Dr Beatrice Allegranti and Dr Jonathan Wyatt: Your Story Calls Me (15 mins colour)

Dr Beatrice Allegranti: Driving Life - extract from the 35 min dance and science film Becoming Bodies (2012)

Experiential Plenary

Dr Beatrice Allegranti and Dr Jonathan Wyatt (writing and dancing reflections of the day)

Exhibition

Jackie King: photography exhibition

Neil Emmanuel: art installation

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Photo from the Your Story Calls Me series exhibition as part of the Embodying Loss Symposium 

on the 20th June 

Dancer: Theresa Messenger 

Photo: Jackie King

Photographic Exhibition at the Symposium

There will be an accompanying photographic exhibition at the Embodying Loss Symposium. The series of stunning images are by the award winning photographer Jackie King and were taken during the filming of Your Story Calls Me.

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Audience Feedback for Your Story Calls Me

A film by Beatrice Allegranti and Jonathan Wyatt 
To be screened at the Embodying Loss Symposium on the 20th June

“This film was amazing…it made me cry but it also made me happy for some reason”

“Very, very touching…the courage of people is admirable…”

“A beautiful production. The music accompanied the stories and images really well and didn’t detract at all from the performances. I found it really moving…”

“Beautiful, I want to see it again…”

“Your story call me to celebrate, to appreciate, to be aware of life, of love, of our ancestors...thank you”.

“…I realized loss and grieving is not absolute or concrete…its cyclical and circular…Your creative artistic process moved within me deeply…a masterpiece!”

“ I think that you have given people a wonderful opportunity to express their grief in a way that has included feelings, the understanding of them and the ability to let go of the weight of that feeling…”

“I felt that you captured that place between life before and life after loss, perhaps its not a place but more like a pathway, where you are changed and changing”.

“..I felt tears coming back of joy and sorrow, a celebration of life and death. I felt strongly connected to the people on the screen, the stories”.

“Wonderful”

“It has allowed me to think back over my life, connecting with emotions of lost family that I hadn’t been awake of how to grieve over…”.

“Such personal stories shared with authenticity and sensitivity, beautifully and tenderly touched me, thank you”.

“ The film was a beautiful kaleidoscope of sensations and feeling, movement and music”.

Booking is now open!

We now accept bookings for the Embodying Loss Symposium. There are two rates available:
£20.00 (students) £45.00 (waged)

Please follow the E-store link below:

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Symposium Themes:
Loss and the body in therapy
Loss and the body in medical context
Embodying loss in therapy and performance
Bio-psycho-social and performative intersections
Experiential Plenary

Confirmed presenters to date
Beatrice Allegranti (Embodiment, writing and loss & gender)
Jonathan Wyatt (Embodiment, writing and loss)
Bonnie Meekums (Dance Movement Psychotherapy, kinaesthetic empathy and loss)
Jeannie Wright (Writing as therapy)
Viv Martin (Experience of people suffering life-threatening illness)
Geoffery Unkovich (solo dance performance of autobiographical loss)
Doe Warnes (Anatomical perspective and loss)
Layla Smith (Short dance film of autobiographical loss)
Gerry Harrison (Embodied Psychopathology and loss)
Mitzi Blennerhasset (Poetry, narrative and illness)

Keep visiting our blog for regular updates. The finalised programme of presentations will be uploaded in May.

Embodying Loss Symposium coming in June

Watch this space for regular updates and information!