ABSTRACT
This chapter places emphasis on imagination and poetic meaning-making. It understands the notion of Poesies, our capacity to re-shape our lived experience through aesthetic form, as fundamental for the arts therapies. Inspired by The Poetic Space by Gaston Bachelard, space is introduced not only as metaphor but also as embodied and material phenomenon relating to our being with ourselves, others and the world. The chapter presents and investigates a workshop that explored the myth of Echo through dramatherapy practice with emphasis on voicework. In Greek mythology, Echo was silenced and yet her reverberations are loud. The aim of the workshop was to allow for an embodied examination of being in space and being space simultaneously. It explored how voicework may be transformative and a vehicle for discovery in dramatherapy of new and emergent spaces within and without, including the connectedness between these realms. The chapter contends that the arts and aesthetic practices such as drama and voicework represent a basic human need for relating to others and thereby to ourselves. Breath and voice touches on this, maybe, ‘soul space’, that seems to be ingrained in our biology and by that, encompassing our subjective bodies connecting us across time and space, within and without.
