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In 2023 and 2024, we engaged in a collaborative dance project in Cambois, England, a coastal village with a contested history. The research involved movement workshops with a community group responding to creative instructions called 'scores' that conceived and improvised novel relationships with the coast via seaweed. Informed by geographical thinking on dark ecologies and multispecies relations, we explored how spending time with, and attending to, seaweeds facilitated fresh perspectives on the Northumberland seascape and its contemporary and future challenges. The Secret Dance of the Seaweed envisioned how humanity might live better with, and care for, multispecies who are active in co-constituting subjectivities and worlds. This paper reflects on the conceptualisations emerging from three co-produced movement scores – draping, attaching , and shapes – that included embodied and sensuous improvisations, knowledges, memories, and imaginaries of seaweeds and the seascape. It speculates on how movement scores contribute to cultural geographers' interests in creative writing and somatic prompts for knowledge production, as well as to collaborations between academia, artists, and communities for ecological research praxis and the critical creative possibilities of scores as multispecies method that braid socio-environmental thought and mutual entanglement.

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