An evening of dance in Walcot Chapel both live performance and video work from locally-based dancers & choreographers.

Singing Vessels

Singing Vessels began initially as a research project exploring the construction of clay musical instruments based upon pre-Columbian models from the South American Andes.

The project developed to explore links between dance and music sonorities that these instruments can inspire in us today. It integrates aesthetics/world views from native South American into Western artistic practices. Addressing issues concerning our bonds to nature and drawing the perspectives where nature and culture are not opposed to, nor in separation from each other.

Singing Vessels brings together practitioners at different stages of their careers through an educative and collaborative character. We distributed leadership horizontally; validating each other’s views and voices. This happened naturally through the many mediums we chose to work with inclusive of ceramics, instrumental composition/performance and dance all amalgamating into the creation of a video dance film by Natalie Austin (+ a whole team of contributors)

Mirage

Mirage uses the languages of Indian Classical and contemporary dance to tell stories about the subtle discrimination that women still face in a society which endorses “Equal Rights For All”.

The suppression and mockery of women has been so casual, that it has ceased to offend us anymore. However, we cannot afford to ignore the darkest hypocrisy of all:

The goddess they worshipped and the infant they murdered were both women.

A solo performance choreographed and performed by Divija Melally

Mirage, Divija Melally

Invisible Lines

The only real border that exists is that between the land and the ocean.Then why do invisible lines have so much power? How many people are torn apart by a worthless piece of paper? How desperate must you be to hang off an aeroplane, to put your child on a flimsy boat? Where is the safe space? We scroll through pleas for help, avert our eyes from wars happening right in front of us, and train ourselves to “look at the bright side”. But what about people who don’t have the privilege of a brighter side?

A group performance choreographed by Divija Melally in collaboration with Edwina Pereira, Ella Swannell and Erin Green.

Invisible Lines, Divija Melally