A PERCEPTUAL ZONE: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

A Perceptual Zone is a month-long exploration of dance in dialogue with the elements. Born from bodies attuning to land, season, and storm, it coalesces in continual contact with the biosphere.Dance arises from the necessity to respond, moving in step with shifting conditions, shaped by the forces of nature. It is an origin of ecological art: wisdom inscribed in fascia, constellations of movement resonant with animal and elemental intelligences. It proposes an ethics of listening and being-with. It unfolds as a communion with what exceeds the self: the stretch of trees into sky, vibration of soil, pressure of air, gravitational pull of another body, the throb of the cosmos. In this reciprocity, rhythm becomes a living cycle — an environmental intimacy through which the human is re-imagined.

Throughout October, artists Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Nicol Vizioli, Nissa Nishikawa, Kapila Venu, Lewis Walker, and Yen-Ching Lin offer workshops, installations, film, photography, and performance. Their practices, experimental and traditional, are gestures that honour the earth while remembering dance as both instinct and offering.

A Perceptual Zone is not performance alone. It is an opening, a space of witnessing, where dance becomes relation, navigating the currents of co-existence.

The workshops with Fernanda will extend from her current research into somatic movement and voice practices in solo and group constellations. The nature of the echo and the building of sound worlds will be explored throughout the gallery spaces at Proposition Galleries.

Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome

2nd Oct - 4th Oct 25

• Workshops 2nd & 3rd October 6:30-8pm - £15
• Public Sharing 4th October: free for all

Of English-Chilean descent, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome is a London-based artist, choreographer, dancer and researcher creating immersive performances and workshops. Through somatic practice and her process driven approach, she explores the potentials of solo and collective embodied power and the temporary building of micro-communities. Collaboration is key, crafting ecologies of liveness, risk, care, and access. Her work shifts perspectives, rippling between human and more-than-human space-time. Approaching dance and voice through the deep poetics of the body and the contradictions of how to be in the world.

All welcome.