Posthuman thinking in 360° immersive dance practice

Dance-making processes that engage with posthuman thinking offer artists new perspectives and ways to relate to the world. This article applies this mode of thinking to 360° digital immersive technologies. Considering 360° immersive dance-making in outdoor environments provides opportunities to observe the self and develop a consciousness that offers an expanded state of awareness. This research explores the ramifications of double embodiment, where one simultaneously is and sees their body in the immersive space. It also examines the generation of allocentric perspectives and autoscopic experiences in 360° dance viewing. In doing so, the 360° immersive dance-making process shifts subjectivity, expanding the understanding of the body. Making and viewing 360° immersive dance allows practitioners to reflect, immerse and reconsider lived experience in relation to the nonhuman. There is a twofold interaction between the body and the sites, as well as between the body and the other, where movement both affects and produces changes in the world. This practice offers a way to extend subjectivity and develop an alternative understanding of the body as the other.