Choreographing Worlding: Planetary Praxis, Care and Resistance in Flatfoot Dance Company's Bodies of Water

Abstract

This article explores Flatfoot Dance Company’s Bodies of Water (2025) as a
choreographic articulation of planetary praxis and worlding. Drawing on
hydrofeminist, ecofeminist, posthumanist, decolonial, and speculative feminist
frameworks, the article positions the work as a refusal of extractivist temporality
and a reclamation of embodied, situated knowledges. Through the lenses of
planetarity, geontopower, epistemologies of the South, and speculative feminism,
the choreography is read as a political and aesthetic intervention that enacts
permeability, grief, care, and futurity. Central to this analysis is the concept of
worlding, understood as an embodied practice of creating and sustaining
multiple, relational worlds. The article argues that Bodies of Water demonstrates
how dance functions as ecological activism and knowledge production, offering a
pluriversal, embodied politics of resistance and survival.