Dancing through the vege patch

‘Dancing through the vege patch’ is an artist essay in the voice of choreographer Gregory Lorenzutti that provides readers with a reflection on Theatrum Botanicum: an interdisciplinary project which combined dance and holistic urban farming, commissioned for the third year Bachelors of Fine Arts in dance performance at the Victoria College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, 2022. Drawn from a series of interviews conducted before, during and after the creation of Theatrum Botanicum; choreographer, photographer and urban farmer, Gregory Lorenzutti provides insights into the relationship between knowledge production, place-based dance pedagogy and interdisciplinary practice with a particular focus on its role in tertiary education. In doing so, Lorenzutti reveals how creative methodologies can slip between disciplines and artistic forms to invigorate practice and deepen the relationship between body, space and place. This artist essay – emerging in and through a series of conversations – seeks to better transmit the embodied and affective dimensions of learning through interdisciplinary practices in dance.