Embodied Landscapes is an ongoing artistic exploration investigating the relationship between body, environment, and wellbeing through movement, sensory awareness, and community art practices.
Rooted in urban green spaces, this work explores how nature landscapes; trees, weather, textures, sounds, and open space can influence how we move, feel, and relate to ourselves and others. Through participatory experiences, the project invites people to slow down, notice, and respond creatively to the environments they inhabit.
Blending dance improvisation, somatic practices, and simple visual art processes, Embodied Landscapes examines the body as a living landscape shaped by memory, sensation, and place while also exploring urban nature landscapes as something we are in relationship with, rather than separate from.
Artistic Focus
This body of work explores questions such as:
- How does movement and connection to our body change when we are in relationship with urban nature?
- What happens to our nervous systems when we slow down and attend to our surroundings?
- How can art and movement support connection, presence, and collective wellbeing in city environments?
- How do personal wellbeing, community, and urban nature landscapes relationship intersect?
The work emphasizes subtle movement, sensory awareness, everyday gestures, and creative expression rather than performance or technical dance skill.
Process & Methods
Process and Methods within Embodied Landscapes may include:
- Guided movement and dance improvisation
- Ecosomatic and sensory awareness practices
- Body–land mapping and creative writing reflection
- Drawing, collage, and nature-inspired art processes
- Collaborative and or participatory community art
- Site-responsive movement explorations in parks and urban spaces
These experiences are designed to be inclusive and accessible to people of diverse backgrounds and movement experience.
Upcoming Projects
Embodied Landscapes — Evergreen Brickworks (Toronto)
Community Art & Movement/Dance workshop exploring connection between body, land, and collective wellbeing through movement and art in an urban green space.
About the Artist
Liz Diaz is a Peruvian-Canadian movement facilitator and emerging artist exploring the intersection of dance, somatic practices, nature, and community-engaged art. Her work investigates how movement and creative expression can deepen connection to place, body, and collective wellbeing. She creates participatory experiences that invite slowing down, listening, and responding to environments through movement and art.
