https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/26599 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:41:53 GMT 2026-04-15T20:41:53Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127419 Title: El cuerpo partido (The broken body) Abstract: Dance scholar and researcher Dr Paula Guzzanti travels to Costa Rica to facilitate dance and meditation classes for Nicaraguans living in exile. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127419 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127106 Title: The language of affect in choreographic practice : conversations on the making of embodied at the GPO Authors: Guzzanti Ferrer, Paula Abstract: The language that choreographers use to reflect on their practice is infused with metaphors and sensory images that refer to the experience of affect. The language and images they use activate, steer, and make sense of affect within their compositional processes. The words they choose suggest an affective encounter, a point of confluence and emergence between the embodied experience of dancing and the meaning-making process that is intrinsic to the artistry of dance-making. In this practice, the articulation of affect involves a process of awareness, recognition, integration and expression. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127106 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127105 Title: After the touch of violence : transforming the affects of violence in displaced communities through dance improvisation Authors: Guzzanti Ferrer, Paula Abstract: I arrived in San Jose, capital city of Costa Rica, on July 4, 2019, to deliver four weeks of dance improvisation and meditation to Nicaraguan people fleeing from persecution and human rights violations. With the support of the Higginson Leadership Award (Queen's University Belfast) and a network of grassroots organisations based in Costa Rica, my plan was to facilitate tools for wellbeing to a displaced community. My initial thought was that dance improvisation and meditation practice could contribute to a humanitarian aid programme as a resource for supporting people who had lived through traumatic events, but my experience working with exiles would shift my thinking. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127105 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127104 Title: Pathways : walking in a terrain in flux Authors: Guzzanti Ferrer, Paula; D'Arcy, John Abstract: This chapter offers a reflective account of the walking performance project Pathways (2021). The project aimed to explore the ways in which large infrastructural road works impact people's desire to walk. The walking practice took place from February to November 2021 along the lines of a newly built multi-level road junction on the island of Malta. The new road infrastructure on which we focus the project is known as the Marsa Junction. It runs along the edge of Marsa, a town located in the South-eastern region of Malta. Founded along Malta's Grand Harbour, Marsa is adjacent to several other towns. Historically, it has been possible to walk through these towns continuously. One might only notice the passing from one town to the next through subtle changes in architectural and other urban features and the characteristics of the town's inhabitants. The new highway infrastructure of the Marsa Junction was advertised as 12 km of uninterrupted road network connecting the south and north of the country (Infrastructure Malta 2020. Such a proposal begs the question of how this continuous flow of vehicles impacts and changes the historical pedestrian lines connecting towns and communities. It follows that we might ask how changes in pedestrian tracks and lines might affect how humans construct their sense of place and connect with their environment. Thus, we wonder what kind of relationship to the Earth this new urban geography might foster amongst the pedestrians of Malta. We feel that these questions might be answered through procedures of mindful walking. We attempt to do this using an embodied research approach in the Pathways project. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127104 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z