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Perform Europe Grant Success
For touring Feminist Moving Kinship® Hubs in Europe
Find out about the innovative project and the partnerships across Italy, Latvia, Ukraine and Netherlands on the Perform Europe site.
Beatrice Allegranti’s new book is published
Details of launch events throughout 2024.
Book 25% discount code: EFLY01 on the Routledge site.
Here’s a snapshot of the critical reviews:
A deeply feminist project, Moving Kinship speaks to the defining questions of our post-Covid, “post-truth” times. This ground-breaking work entangles the reader with its explorations, helping silences to become resonant, and darkness to be illuminated and illuminating in equal measure.
Caro Bainbridge, Coach, Consultant, Emerita Professor of Culture and Psychoanalysis, London
I encountered Moving Kinship as a fellow professora of capoeira and social justice advocate … and found reading it a profoundly moving and enriching experience. Allegranti has written a hugely impressive and personally affecting body of work.
Ebony Riddell Bamber, Global Programme Leader – Human Rights, Gender & Reparative Justice, LondonThis book is beautiful, haunting. Moving Kinship is both a gift and a call to action. We are all in Allegranti’s debt.
Jonathan Wyatt, Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and co-director Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, The University of Edinburgh
Allegranti’s work offers a place to heal anchored in movement, socioeconomic realities, and the power of embracing our own experiences. Beautifully written and illustrated, every word is honest and powerful as it is woven from personal material.
Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, City University, London
Moving Kinship will summon you to dance the collisions and communions of being with others. Accept the invitation.
Tami Spry, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Performance Studies, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
Moving Kinship is a book to slow dance with. Allegranti’s metamorphosing project enables artists to response-ably gift public and private movement performances – in the streets, in museums, in homes, in dusty ruins. This book will inspire a generation of movers and shakers who want to enact more-than-human rights, equity and justice.
EJ Renold, Professor of Childhood Studies, University of CardiffAllegranti writes with a choreographer’s attention to all types of movement, and the reliability of somatic knowing. A beautiful text that truly challenges the ‘thingness’ of words on pages and reminds us that they, too, have lives worth sharing.
Professor Daniel X. Harris, ARC Future Fellow, Co-Director, Creative Agency Research Lab, RMIT University, Australia
This book is crafted as an art piece that advocates for social justice and viscerally challenges traditional ways of creating knowledge. Moving Kinship resembles a colourful kaleidoscope where, through the prism of feminism, choreography and psychotherapy, the reader constantly discovers critical intersectional insights.
Dr. Alejandra Benitez, Social Activist and Gender Expert, Mexico.
In the dementia sections of Moving Kinship, Beatrice Allegranti has shared widely and eloquently her knowledge and understanding of, and innate connection with, those who are marginalised and stigmatised, and offered positive, creative, well researched, practised and implemented means to break down these barriers.
Pippa Kelly, Award Winning Dementia Journalist
This book is more than an academic review of a trans-disciplinary practice-led research project exploring the experience of grief, early-onset dementia and transgenerational trauma, it is an impressively intimate work. The book is filled to the brim with inspiring insights and moving anecdotes of personal accounts that transcend theoretical application, where Allegranti offers an embodied invitation to join in and “move with the trouble.”
Sarah Lapinsky, Dancer, Choreographer, Writer Dance Art Journal
Head over to Routledge to see the full CRITICS REVIEWS of Moving Kinship: Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World.
Contact Beatrice Allegranti if you are interested in booking a Moving Kinship® talk or workshop.
