Photo by Greg Wong

What does it mean to align oneself in space and time?

Be immersed in a soft visual of space and bodies, moving slowly in and out of frame and distance across four screens. This installation involves a gently accumulating sonic score that is subtle yet seems to grow thicker throughout. Multiple dancing bodies, all from different trainings, traditions, and generations, work with ideas of presence and absence in order to discover ways bodies can create bridges of togetherness. The combination allows an idea of space to come alive in a unique way, as the work surrounds you.

“The performance segments and arcs movement — drawing, erasing, and recharting encounters. The compositional structure is non-narrative, a material grid that stages the politics of dance, of what it means to align oneself in absence, in the presence of others.”

– Choreographer Padmini Chettur

ĀNANDAṀ: Commissioner/Producer; Padmini Chettur: Choreography; Maarten Visser:Composition; Nithya Garg, Tanveer Alam, Brandy Leary, Robert Kingsbury, Atri Nundy: Dance Artists; Harikishan S Nair: Rehearsal Direction/Stage Management; Siobhan Sleath: LX Design; Eamon MacMahon: Film/Photo; Sarah Doucet: Costume Design; Briana Brown: ĀNANDAṀ Artistic Producer