Rani Nair

Memory Lab

Graphic image of headphones with colorful flowers and a text saying Memory Lab

Graphic form: Cecilia Höglund

Tu 1.9.2020, 17:00-18:00, MDT

Th 3.9.2020, 17:00-18:00, MDT

"Memory Lab" is a performance that, like many of my previous works, revolves around memories and dance. Already in 2003 I inherited the work “Dixit Dominus”, choreographed by Kurt Jooss for the Indian dancer Lilavati living in Sweden. In my work “Future Memory” (2012/2014), memories are processed from a postcolonial and highly personal perspective where the intersections of the meetings between Western dance canon and an Indian contemporary and traditional dance are explored. How can dance, movements or rather memories of movements be inherited and carried on? These questions filters through my latest work, An evening with Astad, where I, together with Astad Deboo, 72, a pioneer of contemporary Indian dance, explore his-tories and memories. An evening with Astad had its 2017 premiere in Lund and played last summer in Munich within a project on post-migrant dance. “Memory Lab” explores how memories can live on and be embodied with the help of the audience members. Participatory choreographies that shift our conceptions of canon and traditions, while at the same time, through the physical and immediate participation of the body, we experience a unique closeness to memories – both our own and of others.

Rani Nair

Rani Nair work with dance and choreography. Memory and archive is recurring thematic in her work. Her choreographies have been programmed at the Centre National de la Dance Paris, ImpulsTanz Vienna, Spielart Festival in Munich, Ignite! Festival of contemporary dance in Delhi, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Spielart festival and at the The Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts. Nair´s work is also represented at the Performing Arts museum, Dansmuseet in Stockholm and in the book Oxford Dictionary of Dance and Re-enactment.

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