Publications of note

2025

Routledge publication: Practitioners Perspective on Dance Research, edited by Gemma Harman. Chapter co-authored with
Dr Glenna Batson, Chapter 8: Entering the f/old – languaging the ‘stuff’ of art making. ISBN 9781032566795.

https://www.routledge.com/Practitioner-Perspectives-on-Dance-Research/Harman/p/book/9781032566795?srsltid=AfmBOoq1RbqXFz1_NCPSCloaot2YRQ0e_SP0OwXEbfjb26kBAoQd1UQQ

artmaking as embodied enquiry -entering the f/old. Book edited and co-authored by Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson, Intellectbooks. Designed as a generative platform for sourcing creativity, this book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/ trans/postdisciplinary artistic research, transforming playful exploration into deeper intimacy within art making with mixed media.

https://www.intellectbooks.com/artmaking-as-embodied-enquiry


2024

Longer experiential dive
Ocean-Archive.org — a digital organism for a living Ocean — fostered by TBA21‑Academy

Susan Sentler

Expanded improvised script to support a dive from ‘the f/old as somaticartistic practice’ research shared by Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson responding to the workshop: f/olding-unfolding: inhabiting geological transformations, celebrated on June 11th, 2024, as part of Online Study Group by TBA21–Academy’s The Current IV: Caribbean: “otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua” (other mountains, adrift beneath the waves), led by Yina Jiménez Suriel.

Research ~ 2024-10-08

Concept tags: adaptation at sea, humans at sea, island worlds

Keyword tags: body movement, improvisation, storytelling, The Current IV

https://ocean-archive.org/
https://ocean-archive.org/story/longer-experiential-dive

2022


Publication for the joint issue of JDTC Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and GPS Global Performance Studies on collaborative research in theatre and performance studies.

Collaboration co-authored by Susan Sentler with Sony Devabhaktuni, School of Architecture, University of Hong Kong and Joanna Mansbridge, Department of English, City University Hong Kong. Article titled: When Zoom Roomed the World: Performing Network Culture’s Enclosures.

https://gps.psi-web.org/article/view/88/91/


2021

Conversational article/blog, On Movement, Rhythm and Data, for the online publication so-far, with Chief Editor Christina J. Chua on the MMCC (mediated/movement/choreographic/collaboration) collaborative project of Susan Sentler with colleague Dr Jamie Forth.

https://mmcc.jamieforth.net/writing/so-far.html

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/859789249

 

Publication for Design Culture(s)/Roma 2021 Cumulus Conference. Collaboration pedagogic research between fashion and dance rooted in the fold, origami aligned with minimalism/anti form visual art movements. The paper co-authored by Susan Sentler with 2 fashion colleagues from LASALLE College of the Arts: Daniela Monasterios-Tan and Ginette Chittick titled The Threshold of Language: Design and Soma.

︎ Cumulus Conference

DESIGN CULTURE (OF) LANGUAGES. AESTHETICS | EXPRESSION | VISUAL



2020

Human Origami: uncovering meta-levels of corporeal embodiment through movement improvisation
Chapter co-authored by Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson. Routledge publication, edited by Stephanie Burridge, titled: Embodied Performativity in Southeast Asia: Multidisciplinary Corporeality.

︎ Book


2019

The Liquid Architecture of Bodily Folding Chapter by Susan Sentler co-written with Dr Natasha Lushetich for Beyond Mind: Symbolism, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical Aesthetics, DeGruyter, GR.

︎ Symbolism 2019
︎ Abstract


2017

How visual and kinaesthetic imagery shape movement improvisation: A pilot study Article co-written by Susan Sentler and  Glenna Batson for JDSP (Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices)

︎ Book



Podcasts



2022

ResDance Podcast

ResDance: a podcast founded by Dr. Gemma Harmon, dedicated to research methodologies and methods in dance practice, intended for educators, students, practitioners and performance interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.

ResDance S2:the f/old, an impulse for multiplicity in languaging with Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson’ Episode 8, recorded 2 October 2022.

In this podcast, Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson share insights into their ten-year collaboration of honing a practice-based language on folding. Rooted in embodiment, the f/old is a somaticartistic practice that departs from form into a multiplicity of processes for art making that incorporate the interplay of body and multimedia.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4elCkksq2Sl3ahwEDh0x32