Dominique Savitri Bonarjee
Speaker
Dominique-Savitri is an Indian-French artist, writer, and educator. Her life and art cohere around a perpetual inquiry into the water body as a source of intuition and knowing. She creates immersive experiences, bringing together choreography, sound composition, and visual elements, to induce states of remembering of (unknown) knowing. By researching the dances and movements of ancient wisdom traditions she creates ritual actions that resonate with our era of collapse. Dance for her is a ‘rebellion of the body’ through which to reclaim time as embodied, with water as the guiding principle.
Her first monograph, Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer (Routledge Advances in Performance and Theatre Studies, 2024) is an account of her meetings with seminal Japanese performance artists for whom dance was a viscerally political response to the post-atomic landscape. Her doctoral art project, Space of the Nameless(2024), awarded by Goldsmiths University explores ‘the detached eye/I’, a witnessing technology she inherited from her Butoh teachers. The outcome of her research are dance practices, scores and koans for enticing the sentience of nonhuman materiality, ambient entities, and the froth of the imaginal to guide more equitable and loving ways of being in the world.
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