Our Story: Taking Embodied practice to the community

creative practice . IMPROVISATION . living research


Our collaboration was born in a Coburg pub back in 2017. Two performance practitioners passionate about embodiment, wellbeing & creativity came together firstly as sound duo Sonic Field, and then in May 2018 merging their decades of teaching experience, formed social enterprise Live Particle. The synergy between Camilla’s original work Adventures In The Field & Angela’s PhD Wild Life: The Lived Experience of Artistic Creativity was the spark for this new enterprise. Establishing Live Particle was a unique opportunity to realise our shared desire to see conscious embodiment in mainstream education and embedded in the connective tissue of our communities. We wanted to emphasise relational connection as the pulse of a life-sustaining existence.

Since then we have worked in school, university and community settings to support people to re-pattern behaviours and consciously activate creativity, manage stress, alleviate anxiety and feed their psychophysical health using embodied practices.

In October 2019 we established a home for Live Particle at The Dundas Street Collective in Preston. Our beloved studio is a making space for our digital materials and a highly nurturing room where we offer virtual and in-person embodied practice classes.

Camilla performing with GingerInOrange. London, 2008

Camilla performing with GingerInOrange. London, 2008

Angela performing Imagine This… Melbourne, 2017

Angela performing Imagine This… Melbourne, 2017

We regularly engage in live research through sound & movement improvisation generating material from this creative practice. Responding to the constantly changing conditions of lived experience and our embodied entanglement with others and our environments, we distil evocative, experiential moments from everyday experience. We develop tools to stimulate state shifts, conjure other worlds and traverse terrains that are interactive.

ATTRIBUTIONS

Our work has been informed by decades of research with various embodiment practitioners & artists who form a lineage of practice and to whom we are eternally grateful. There are a specific few in our more immediate practice that we'd like to acknowledge. They are: