ABSTRACT
This chapter presents interdisciplinary and international choreographic and dance movement psychotherapy practice-led research with people living with young-onset dementia, their families, and the artistic team Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre with composer Jill Halstead. It focuses on the sociopolitical perspective to situate the articulacy of human moving bodies together with non/more-than-human creative processes when interrogating issues of injustice and promoting progressive change. The chapter shows that dancing collectively, co-creating (the) material, reinstates bodying as an ethics of collective accountability, offering more-than human rights by dislocating the human at the central starting point and offering an antidote to the national body politic that propagates a fiction of the stable and unified self. The choreographic kinship evolved through inviting participants to join in improvised movement responses directly after the performances. The work weaves personal, social, and medical taboos about loss, intimacy, kinship, and embodied resistance encountered throughout the process of creating bespoke material.
