This research deals with the notion of Lithic Choreographies as an approach to address human-stone entanglements, exploring mutual affect, agency, and matter. It does this by developing a set of exercises, tasks, and practices unfolded through an extended period of inquiry and studio practice. Three types of studio sessions have been implemented: one-to-many studio sessions, involving a number of stones and one human; many-to-many studio sessions, consisting of multiple stones and humans; and performance-making, covering the process of devising and presenting four performances derived from the research. The hypothesis of this research is that, by exploring what the relational intra-actions among humans and stones can do, possible new affect-laden, eco-performative imaginaries about the current Anthropocene epoch can emerge.

Lithic Choreographies is a transdisciplinary research situated at the intersection(s) of expanded choreography, philosophy (posthumanism(s), critical ecology, affect theory), and sound and listening practices.