My new book “Humming The Bones” will be officially launched on April 10th 2026 @ 6pm at the Henley Sailing Club, 1 Seaview Road, West Beach, S.A.

Pre-launch sales can be purchased here https://www.trybooking.com/DJRNJ

Humming the bones charts the life of Australian dance and video artist Dianne Reid as she navigates grief and transition. Uniquely structured, shifting between prose and poetry, past and present, Reid interweaves contemporary dance history with her personal journey and a present-day contemplative walking practice. Written over the two years following her mother’s death, the work drops the reader into visceral description, bringing the visual to life through the choreography of the written word.

 “This is less a text about my life as an artist as it is about my body as environmental matter. How our connections to the natural world, and to our bodies as part of that, create a connective ‘gold.’ Making sense of life is about sensation.”

 

Where did you go, yesterday’s skeleton?

Did I fling you out through gestures, exfoliate you?

Jaw bone, clavicle, scapula, sacrum

These things add up to a declaration, a dancing manifesto

Places to depart from and arrive to

Things to gather and let go of, rib by rib

Rest your cheek on it and listen

Humming the bones

 

Humming the bones illuminates the capacity dance and creative arts have for working through issues relating to the body, violence and grief. Through the grace of disclosure, Reid draws sustain/ability, independence and community cooperation to the surface. This is more than an important account of independent dance history in Adelaide and Melbourne, it is an unpacking of the creative imagination and an immersion into the sensation of the present moment.