“Bezold’s research methodologies, which she grounds in intuition and observation, bring her face-to-face with ever-shifting landscapes and older ways of knowing and being. Like pressing one’s spine against the trunk of a tree, Bezold seeks to press against—and perhaps even absorb—her own body, and those of her audience, into the patterns and structuring energies she encounters in the world. One might leave an experience or proposition hosted by Bezold changed: changed by the vulnerable strength and pleasure our own bodies offer, or changed by a profound sense of gratitude for the depth of entanglements granted by our lived, and living, world.” Excerpt from an essay on Julina Vanille Bezold by Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter