Shifting Basslines: Dance Floors as Portals | AfroOankali

Shifting Basslines is dedicated to creating awareness, sharing knowledge, and diving into the complex relationship between the planet and raving. The project centres on a three-part podcast series.

In this episode, artist and somatic practitioner Camille Sapara Barton invites us to feel the climate crisis. We are sensing why dance floors can be spaces for grief and how they can shape a different relationship not just to our own bodies but to the planet at large. 

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Interviewpartner: Renee from Criprave

Show notes

• Tending Grief - book by Camille Spara Barton

• Track played at the end by Simon Wald Lasowski aka Quantum Flirt, vocals from Camille Sapara Barton

• Article Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

• Article Effect of exercise for depression: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

• Crip Rave

Further Readings

• Essay: A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building

• Book: Climate, Psychology, and Change. Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety

• Article: Revitalising embodied community knowledges as leverage for climate change engagement

CREDITS

• Idea, Project Curation & Creative Production: Kerstin Meißner

• Episode Curation, Storytelling, and Narration:

  • Episode #1 “Grounded Travel On Space Ways" - Nono Gigsta

  • Episode #2 “Clouds Are More Than Water” - Sarj Lynch

  • Episode #3 "Dance Floors As Portals" - Camille Sapara Barton

• Sound Design & Composition: Yuliia Vlaskina

• Editing: Sarah Farina

• Artwork: Opashona Ghosh

• Accessibility Support: Saverio Cantoni 

• Mixing and Mastering: Yuliia Vlaskina

• Support & Financial Administration: Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

• Broadcasting and Publication: Refuge Worldwide

Editor's Notes "We Can Not Do It Alone"