Can Your Jellyfish Sing?: “Tentacular” Moves From Individual Embodiment to the Planetary

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  • Róisín O’Gorman University College Cork

Author Biography

Róisín O’Gorman, University College Cork

Róisín O’Gorman is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre at University College Cork, Ireland. She studied theatre in USA and returned to Ireland in 2007. Róisín’s current research lives between embodied practices and theoretical understandings of performance. She explores this interdisciplinary terrain through the somatic practice of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) which offers an embodied ground to her theoretical and media based work. See: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A027/rogorman/

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