Body Time for Reckoning with Space and Place

Abstract

How might Cultural Safety, Acknowledging Country and a reckoning with past injustices undergird travelling together as a mode of embodied storying for an intergenerational group of dancers cultivating a sense of belonging? In April 2022 nine VCA Dance Masters students participated in a Residency led by Rheannan Port on Yorta Yorta Country. Titled Body Time Space Place, the residency explored kinship, care and the ethics of encountering place from an Indigenous perspective. Sited on the grounds of one of Australia’s first Settler-Colonial Agricultural Colleges, Dookie Campus University of Melbourne, students were encouraged to see beyond the ‘blindness of Australian agriculture’3 evidenced in..