3pm GMT +1 start

 

3:00-3:15pm

Opening talk 

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3:15-4:15pm

Dr. Maria Sicarú Vásquez Orozco

Decolonization of dance history through a visual approach

"Decolonizing the writing of dance history is an important task at this time. From the position of an art historian and the Mexican point of view, it is important to reconstruct the historiography from visual approaches, which will help to understand how the imaginaries and stereotypes formulated a type of dance history configured from Coloniality, under a linear proposal, and without a critical perspective. This paper, the product of my doctoral thesis, invites reflection on how the way of perceiving and writing the history of dance in Latin America has been standardized." 

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Break 

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4:25-5:25pm

Saranya Devan

An exploration with Navarasas or 9 ways of decolonizing the face

"Working with muscle memory, breath and internal emotions, participants will have the opportunity to explore the Navarasas, which are the nine different states of emotion such as compassion, love, anger and disgust. As artists in the making, it is important to learn about the nuances of working with the face to create stylised expressions. These Navarasas derive from the ancient Sanskrit text, The Natyashastra of Sage Bharata Muni which is a treatise on the performing arts. For this particular practical workshop, Shringara the emotion/sentiment of love will be explored."

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Break

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5:30-6:30pm

zavé martohardjono

Ritual, Dance, and Decolonial Research

"Over five years, I led a ritual-based performance and installation series, "territory: the island remembers" that told the story of an island. Divided by colonial violence, racism, and grappling with climate injustice, the island must reckon with its past to birth its future. I co-created "territory" collectively with queer and trans Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian artists. We used decolonial research practices: listening to the land, improvisational dance, ritual, pre-colonial ancestral research, and collective care as equity. I'll share learnings and practices from our creative process. And I will reflect on ritual, dance, and collective participation as anti-capitalist, reparative, liberatory, creative practices that can empower us to build the futures we need."

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