Fractals of Nature: An embodied journey through creative collaboration and deferring judgement

Fractals of Nature ( Fractals ) was an immersive non-traditional research output (NTRO) and the culmination of my transdisciplinary doctoral research into dance and somatic practice, framed through the lens of deferring judgement – understood as a deliberate attunement to possibilities. The research approached transdisciplinarity as a way of being and knowing and redefined choreography as a somatic practice of sensory engagement and collaborative making. Fractals embodied this approach as an immersive event structured through multisensory making stations, which served as the site of inquiry and generated conditions for creative collaboration, ethical attunement and more-than-human connection. These qualities emphasize sensing through the body, relating with the environment and making together to cultivate attentiveness, relational awareness that extends beyond the human. They connect with somatic traditions of embodied perception, ecological reciprocity and correspondence through making. The event demonstrates how immersive choreographic design can function as a somatic method in its own right, cultivating presence, relationality and more-than-human awareness.