MY BODY IS A PLACE

No Dancing, No Singing,

No Mingling

livestream performance from November 29, 2020

music: Padma Newsome

dance: Susannah Keebler

camera: Larry Gray

Despite this striking imperative from NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian earlier this year in the context of social distancing, we take the tonic of collaboration, experimentation, music, dance, and technologies of connection. Here amongst restriction and devastation we explore fluidity and buoyancy through play with ornamentation, following interest or fun:

Turn, divide, alternate, undulate, shake

Graces and ghosts

Lean, slur, and fall up or down

Approached by leap

Resolved by step

Fluidity creates buoyancy

We take a wide girth on a narrow path

When immersed

Fluid exerts force

On any body

Buoyancy always points up

Pressure increasing with depth

The performance "No Dancing, No Singing, No Mingling” is presented as a part of Melaka Art and Performance Festival 2020