Dialogue Through Movement

Book Talk: Dialogue in Amerta Movement

Join Folkestone-based dance researchers Sidonie Carey-Green and Emma Meehan in a conversation on Dialogue in Amerta Movement, a new book by Meehan and Indonesian scholar Samsul Maarif. The text investigates how dialogue can unfold through movement, drawing on the Amerta Movement approach developed by Javanese artist Suprapto Suryodarmo. It is accompanied by an online resource with writings and films by Amerta Movement practitioners in Indonesia.

Their conversation opens up the book’s key themes: embodied dialogue, intercultural encounters through dance, and the role of movement practice in social justice. It also considers the role of the practitioner as researcher, especially in working in and with different cultures in an ethical way.

The event will include conversation, questions, film clips and prompts for movement.

A free open-access version of the text is available here:

This project was supported by the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, Centre for Religious and Cross-Cultural Dialogue at Universitas Gadjah Mada, and the Leverhulme Trust.