What Are Somatic Acts?

Somatic Acts are a collection of guided pedagogical invitations—delivered as multi-sensorial scores (audio, video, and text)—that draw on Somatic Movement Practices to foster both embodied learning and creative processes.

Central to this approach is how and what we attend to: ourselves, others, and the ‘things’ around us. Here, materials, everyday clothing, and Somatic Costumes serve as tangible anchors and bridges into these somatic processes.

By foregrounding the sense of touch, these acts gently challenge our visually centered paradigm, offering a tactile way of being with bodies and materials. At their core, they work with the choreography of attention—the underlying attending patterns that form not only the performances we create, but how we move and relate in daily life.

They serve as:

• Embodied Preparations: Guided scores for direct, sensory engagement with materials, others, and your own body.
• Aware-Wearing: Practical invitations to explore how what we wear transforms our sensory perception, movement, and presence.
• Experiential Learning: A way to understand concepts through felt physical experience, bridging sensation and thought.
• A Medium for Touch: Multi-modal invitations (audio, visual, and written) that support sensory integration, fostering deep physical and psychological connection.
• Poetic Integrations: Weaving in a poetic approach—also referred to as ‘Somatic Poems’—these acts engage deeper layers of awareness, offering multi-interpretive, non-linear insights beyond everyday analysis.

Somatic Acts can be accessed here:

1) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2340259/3807949

2) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4011823/4082871

3) Book: The Somatic Costume Dressing Room – Choreographing Attention through Touch & the Poetic