Embodied Circular Reading | Fragments from Past Performances

Please note: These workshops are rooted in transnational feminist and brave space frameworks, where care, consent, and co-presence are central. In order to protect the privacy of participants, sessions are intentionally not recorded.

The video fragments below are of solo performance elements by Marie Theresa Crick, drawn from two past events — Knees to Stone, Three Secrets (Tsarino AiR Foundation, Bulgarian Eastern Rhodope Mountains, Sept 2024) and Post card Dis/Comfort: An Embodied Response (SMR Summer School, The Feminine in an Age of Anthropological Transformation, Greece, Sept 2024). These are shared with permission and sensitivity, offering a glimpse into the somatic and performative textures of the work, while honouring the collective experiences that cannot and should not be fully captured.

The film opens with Filmic Bodies, an ongoing practice shaped by breath, memory, and the maternal relation. Developed through fragments filmed in performance with my mother and alone at Marian sites, Filmic Bodies explores what I call filmic breath: an editing rhythm led by the body rather than the eye. These works are not illustrative but affective; inviting viewers into shared breath, embodied memory, and the intimate, unresolved space of the maternal.

Projected during workshops, these filmic fragments resonate with the breath present in the room, opening a porous dialogue between film and lived experience—between the recorded and the relational, the solitary and the shared.