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In 2023 and 2024, the authors engaged in a collaborative dance project in Cambois, England, a coastal village with a contested history. The research involved movement workshops with a community group responding to creative instructions called ‘scores’ that conceived and improvised novel relationships with the coast via seaweed. Informed by geographical thinking on dark ecologies and multispecies relations, the authors explored how spending time with, and attending to, seaweeds facilitated fresh perspectives on the Northumberland seascape and its contemporary and future challenges. The Secret Dance of the Seaweed envisioned how humanity might live better with, and care for, multispecies who are active in co-constituting subjectivities and worlds. We reflect on the conceptualisations emerging from three co-produced movement scores - draping, attaching, and shapes - including embodied and sensuous improvisations, knowledges, memories, and imaginaries of seaweeds and the seascape. The paper speculates on how movement scores contribute to cultural geographers’ interests in creative writing, leveraging somatic, non-verbal prompts for knowledge production, and collaborations between academia, artists, and communities for ecological research praxis. It also identifies the critical creative possibilities of scores as multispecies method that braids socio-environmental thought and mutual entanglement.
Author(s): Veal C, Huss E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Cultural Geographies
Year: 2025
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 25/06/2025
Acceptance date: 06/06/2025
Date deposited: 09/06/2025
ISSN (print): 1474-4740
ISSN (electronic): 1477-0881
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740251350393
DOI: 10.1177/14744740251350393
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