How Do I Become WE | Workshop for Dancers with Parijat Desai
SAT DEC 11, 2:00-5:00 PM
In-person | Free with registration, limited capacity | Open to dancers
CPR | 361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, 11211
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/209488725417

CPR-Center for Performance Research is collaborating with dance artist Parijat Desai to co-present a workshop exploring material from her current project How Do I Become WE, as an extension of her 2021 CPR residency.

The workshop is an opportunity for dancers to engage with aspects of Parijat’s development process, including both improvisation and phrase material, and to forge a creative relationship for possible longer-term collaboration.

How Do I Become WE will be a multimedia performance and participatory ritual. Built around a Kannada women's folk tale and Navratri garba (an autumnal circle-dance ritual in worship of primordial Mother), the work explores the relationship between our individual woundedness and the wounds of our world. Employing culturally rooted and experimental dance, with a dose of trickster energy, the piece is an inquiry into the process of releasing hurt, of activating our collective energies, and reconnecting with the natural world.

Thumbnail: Annie Wang, Stanley Gambucci, Trinity Bobo, and Parijat Desai at CPR Sunday Salon 2019.
Below: Parijat Desai in O.O.F. (studies in the opposite of fear), excerpts, at CPR.