Cartography
Choreography, performance, and text: Poorna Swami
Sound composition: Ustad Allaudin Khan
Cartography is a movement-ode, an intimate implosion between word and body. The second in a series of love letters based on original poems, Cartography emerges from the formal romance of Bharatanatyam and collides with more idiosyncratic lexicons to become a disputed map of lust and lament. Cartography premiered at the 2016 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival in New York City.
Pants Becoming Kites
Choreography: Ellen Oliver and Dayita Nereyeth
Performance: Dayita Nereyeth
Original sound composition: Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater
(feat. Austin Retzlaff and Maya Sungold)
Pants Becoming Kites was originally conceived as a duet for a student production at Amherst College (USA) in 2014. Ellen has collaborated with Dayita to rework the duet into a quirky and comical solo, exploring the dynamics of waiting and performing. Inspired by the daily commute to work, the movement highlights pedestrian qualities in our daily moments of transit. How can we be inspired by the ordinary?
Long time no see (preview)
Choreography and performance: Dayita Nereyeth and Poorna Swami
Original sound composition: Dara Hankins
Original text: Poorna Swami
We began with a city. Then, we swallowed it. Wandering the remains, our bodies became scaffolding to rebuild a city of our own. Peculiar. Blueprinted. Severe and intimate. This dance emerged from a game of puzzles and blocks, flesh and skyline–a continual return to the precise wilderness of form and structure. It’s a fuzzy calculation of many derivatives–your body, my metropolis.
Lighting design for Citations: Bharavi
