From the trembling of the hand, the barely perceptible undulation of the walk, and the wandering gaze, to the body’s uncontrollable shivers, micromovements are sub- or unconscious gestures that sustain a sense of bodily continuity and composure by creating what philosopher and somatic educator Elizabeth Behnke calls “ongoing kinesthetic holding patterns.”1 Somatic hyphens of sorts, micromovements…

Ji zoongde’eyaang (2022) was a collaboration between Lara Kramer and her mother Ida Baptiste, artist, and retired Ojibwa language teacher (Member of Berens River First Nation, Manitoba, Treaty 5). Together they created a series of bright jingle-adorned trade blankets, one of which inspired the 2024 performance by the same name: Gorgeous Tongue. The title refers…