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Duets
Movement research based on the concept of Gap. Dancers are creating and filling gaps in the body, and considering what it means to find, explore, and fill emotional and physical gaps.
Created as part of Amassit Residency at the Dance complex in 2014.
Dancers
Sonia Santvoord
Chavi Bansal
Hai Dang Nguyen
Choreography
Chavi Bansal
Music Composition
Andrew Trovato
Stop! I will never...
Just like sand slipping from a hand, the dancer sorts through memories in her diary. Piece is inspired by lines from an old journal of mine.
Explores the idea of entanglement; getting entangled in the hollowness of oneself.
Created in The Netherlands in 2011, at Dansateliers Production House.
Dancer
Katherine Lake
Choreography
Chavi Bansal
Music Composition
Andrew Trovato
Infanticide
Taking the concept of female infanticide, movement has been inspired by movement of a foetus in mothers womb womb.
Dancers
Students of University of Stavanger ( Norway)
Choreography
Chavi Bansal
Music Composition
Heicko Van Dijker
Touched By Water
Inspired by Female Infanticide in India, this movement research is based on the movement of water. It considers how water moves inside the body, as well as outside the body when in womb of a mother.
Created as part of Catalyst Residency at the Dance Complex, 2015; expanded from piece made in Norway in 2011.
Dancers
Sonia Santvoord
Katherine Lake
Jessie Stinnett
Jessica Chang
Choreography
Chavi Bansal
Music Composition
Philip Glass - Symphony for Eight
Day after day
Inspired by time spent in an Indian metro, and observing relationships that build up over the long journey, and considering the slow ticking away of time.
Created in India, 2013 as part of Friends of Art Residency.
Dancers
Chavi Bansal
Hai Dang Nguyen
Alex Davis
Choreography
Chavi Bansal
Music
Never Fall in Love Again - Dionne Warwick
Soundscapes
Andrew Trovato