Water: Scientific and Somatic Approaches to Environmental Sentience

This 40-page written dance thesis explores water as a sentient being through somatic and scientific frameworks, revealing how water’s inherent movement patterns – from molecular bonding to ocean currents – suggest consciousness and agency. By examining water’s scientific properties alongside spiritual, religious, cultural, and artistic relationships to water, I argue that approaching water as a conscious dancer opens new possibilities for understanding sentience. Exploring embodied, reciprocal relationships with water deepens environmental and scientific inquiries.