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7:00 PM
THE CHINKY EXPRESS COMES TO TOWN
March Dance 2024|ASENG BORANG (ARUNACHAL/DELHI)
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium, Chennai
- Language English
- Price All are welcome
What if a some-body was not allowed to make eye-contact, take up any space or even straighten their spine? Maybe they were just given adjectives instead of a name. Sometimes, that some-body is an edible thing, a doll, a fetish, a savage, a caricature but never a person. Some-body gets mocked and humiliated. Some-body is never seen as they would like to be seen but instead how others would like to watch them.
You are here to watch some-body but you do not pity them. Someone wants to educate them, someone wants to develop them and someone want to convert them. Someone wants to clean them, someone wants to assault them and someone wants to enslave them. You sit and watch some-body erode. You watch some-body get played and harassed. You watch some-body’s autonomy removed from their physical body.
Choreographed and performed by Aseng Borang.
Biography: Aseng Borang is a multifaceted artist, being a dance practitioner, choreographer, and writer. Her artistic approach encompasses a wide range of elements, including the body, objects, landscape, performative text, yoga, pole dance, and contemporary movement techniques. Her embodied practice draws inspiration from both her daily life and the ongoing political dynamics surrounding her female identity. As a choreographer, Aseng's creations delve into the exploration of the physical and subjective body within the realms of resistance, vulnerability, fragility, absurdity, and self-assertion.
Notably, Aseng received the Prakriti Excellence Contemporary Dance Award 2018 (PECDA) for her work, "The Chinky Express comes to town."
Location
No 4 Rutland Gate 5th Street
Chennai 600006
India