Feminisms
Moving Kinship Book Launch 2024
Throughout 2024 Beatrice Allegranti’s new book, Moving Kinship, Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World is being launched through a series of public engagement events, continuing professional development training and reviews.
Details will be updated here and on NEWS page.
The first London launch took place at Moving Pieces Studio London Bridge on the 25th April. The celebration included responses from professionals across the sectors of feminism, psychotherapy, dance and music.
Beatrice Allegranti
Choreographer, Filmmaker, Capoeirista, Psychotherapist, Scholar, Writer
“The 25th April is Italian liberation day. Commemorating the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and its brother Italian fascism. On the same day almost 80 years later I’ve launched my new book, Moving Kinship with a room full of wonderfully creative humans and one dog. Moving Kinship weaves multiple embodied stories, including my own transgenerational experience of anti-fascist resistance and the legacy of my Italian partisan grandfather who was killed during the Second World War. I’m full of gratitude to everyone who contributed to an evening that rocked feminist kinship.”
Listen to Beatrice reading this extract from the book: My Mother’s Library, Materialising and My Father’s Funeral, Deathing.
Jonathan Silas
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
“If you know Beatrice, you know that producing this book has been an incredible journey that has moved through the ages. And moving is the right word. Moved through different phases of existence, different phases of being, and has become this kind of collaborative energy that Beatrice engenders so well, producing something I think very remarkable, something that I know has touched a lot of people. And not only those who will read it but those that were involved in it as well that have pulled a little bit out of themselves. That’s what Beatrice does so well. The people around her are able to pull that little bit out of themselves and hand it over in the spirit of kinship.“
Takeshi Matsumoto
Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Movement Psychotherapist
“My dad passed away in 2019 just before pandemic. And since then, I feel like this (Shouting Silently) material changed. Now, I’m singing. I’m dancing. With light and softness.”
Sarah Lapinksy
Dancer, Choreographer, Writer
“I read this book when I was sitting at home, and while I was on the bus, and while I was on the tube. And I found something quite profound about being moved while moving. It sort of reframes the movement, and in doing so, the experience of the movement becomes a moment. I trace time. And I grasp for it. Disturbing it, and resisting it. Finding kinship in the material.”
Foluke Taylor
Therapist*, writer, living in the fluid geographies of the Black diaspora
“Beatrice, like me, a feminist, made contact in 2020 enquiring about collaboration. Did she know that I, as a black feminist, move with a healthy slash heavy suspicion of white feminists? Perhaps.
I don’t know who else is here, but I do know that we are a moving kin and that we cannot wait for the lights to come on to reach for and feel each other. It may undo us, but as Beatrice says, together our work involves commitment to undoing that is never done.”
Beatriz Calvo-Merino
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
“I was expecting the content that I knew of Beatrice as an academic. And, I started reading the introduction, and I had to take a step back, and then I realised this was much more than just an academic book. This was a book very holistic, that was not just about movement, but about being human…it just feels very beautiful…Beatrice cites real people with real life experiences. I think this book can be a call also to realising the importance of the body and the movement before cognition disappears. Now that we are already able, not only when it’s too late.”
Todd Henkin & Gabi Toledo Machado
Composers, singers, musicians
“Move with the trouble, in our homes, in the streets with our planet moving kinship.”
Reviews
Routledge Page: Critics Reviews from professionals across Feminism, Psychotherapy, Dance, Performance, Capoeira, Human Rights
Dance Art Journal: Sarah Lapinsky Move with the Trouble | Moving Kinship
Dementia Journalism: Pippa Kelly
Launch Events
25th April 2024, Moving Pieces Studio, London Bridge
20th June 2024, The International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (IACAET), Webinar (London, Australia, China, India, US).
Photos: Julia Testa
