WORKSHOP
Blank Space
Pushpanjali Sharma & Gautam Nima
Curated by Lina Sunish Vincent
Date: 17th, 18th NOVEMBER
Time: 09:30 – 12:30
Date: 19th NOVEMBER
Time: 10:30 – 13:30
Venue: 91 SPRINGBOARD
Age Group: Open to All
Max Participants per Workshop: 20
This workshop was an opportunity for participants to explore the Self, moving between what is known to them about themselves and what is yet unknown. This was enabled through the use of body-awareness, self-aware movement and dance. It is a scientific fact that we are 99.99% empty space and the body is essentially made up of wavelike motions. Hence, we are essentially movement. Yet we see ourselves as solid, with solid identities. Over years, we come to develop a very fixed sense of the ‘I’ with its physical identity, emotional identity, social identity, creative identity and universal identity. When we recognize the emptiness within ourselves, we recognize the space as well. We introduce the Self to new ways of existing and seeing by discovering new ways of moving.
During the workshop, Pushpanjali and Gautam taught a combination of tools and techniques that they have been using in their dance practice to increase internal awareness.
SUPPORTED BY:
Pushpanjali Sharma and Gautam Nima
Pushpanjali Sharma (M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA., U.S.A) and Gautam Nima (M.F.A. Dance and Choreography, Hollins University, VA., U.S.A.), are interdisciplinary performing artists based in Goa. They are engaged in developing performances and pedagogies that serve experiential knowing through embodiment, movement/dance and somatic/mind-body practices. They believe that education is the way to bring about change, and that this can successfully happen through non-dual practices. They also use performing arts in healing, self-knowing and personal transformation, and teach the same through different kinds of workshop models.
The method they follow in their work is somatic-performative research, where somatics/mind/body practices and performing arts serve as research methodology. Their performance pieces often revolve around a contemplative and philosophical subject, or exposing unseen, unheard and unvoiced stories. Their work is developed through an interdisciplinary approach between performing arts (dance, music and theater) and spiritual/mind-body practices. They are interested in reducing the gap between the audience and the artist and enhancing their experience by allowing them to be a part of our performance work through interaction and the audience’s own creative contribution.
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