An Unnamed Practice

This book is the result of a convergence of two initiatives: the invitation to Rita Ponce de León (Lima, 1982) to develop an editorial project and a residency at Tumbes 204, a center for movement research in Peru. Together, Rita Ponce de León, Joelle Gruenberg, Carola Robles, and Mariana De Los Ríos have developed an unnamed practice, an ongoing study based on knowledge in the fields of dance, movement, and somatic education (a field of study that uses the moving body as the primary place of learning). An unnamed practice is to know through doing and with the key guideline: we are in a precarious balance, an asymmetrical body, seeking a new gesture, we inhabit forms to observe the detail of changes. This folded paper object is like a sprout from the stem of what has been lived, it is another way of thinking about the nature of what happened. Through a series of drawings, texts, and photographs, this publication invites the reader to join in the doing, not only through sight, but with the whole body.