Stillness in Performance
From Abroad Workshop with Shabari Rao
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Stillness in Performance — a workshop based on Still Standing
With Shabari Rao (Bangalore, India)
Stillness has both performative and political implications because it disrupts the expected flow. This workshop will draw from Buddhist meditation practices and explore the role of stillness in performance. Stillness will be used as a modality to develop heightened performative presence, attention to the inner landscape of the performer, and attuning to the larger collective including ensemble and audience. We will also briefly attend to the political implications of stillness as a way of disrupting a culture of toxic productivity. The workshop draws from a deep engagement with stillness that has resulted in a series of 4 multi-modal works works titled Still Standing.
Read the Stillness Manifesto here.
Read about the series here.
The “Stillness in Performance” From Abroad Workshop is in collaboration with Sangam.
Sangam is inspired, curated & directed by its Artistic Director Dr. Priya Srinivasan and Associate Directors Hari Sivanesan and Uthra Vijay.
Dancehouse’s From Abroad Workshops are hosted by visiting international artists who come highly recommended by your Australian peers. From Abroad Workshops are FREE for Dancehouse members.
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Shabari Rao is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India. Her work takes the shape of performing, directing, curating, teaching, writing, experimental film and audio work. Over the last 20 years her work has been supported and presented nationally and internationally through conferences, festivals, residencies, and publications. Her most recent projects, ‘Open Invitation’ and ‘Still Standing 4’ were supported by The Witness, Switzerland and Hello Earth, Denmark respectively. Shabari has held several academic positions where she designs and delivers interdisciplinary courses in higher education settings, the most recent of which was at BITS School of Law, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Preceding this she was a founding faculty member at RV University where she headed the Performing Arts program in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Currently she is a doctoral research scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai where her research focuses on Embodied Pedagogy in mathematics teaching.
