Resist/ Co-Exist - A Live Dance Performance for Virtual(ity): a digital exhibition
Channel: Project 40 Collective
Date: 2018-07-23

Resist/ Co-Exist

CREDITS:

STORY
By Mushtari Afroz

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY & DANCE
By Tamar Ilana (Flamenco) and Mushtari Afroz (Kathak)

MUSIC
Vocals - Tamar Ilana
Kathak Bol Parhant - Mushtari Afroz, Ahilan Kathirgamathamby
Percussion - Ahilan Kathirgamathamby
Kathak Taal - Teen Taal (16 beat rhythmic cycle

Artist Statement:
Resist/Co-exist tells the story of two dancers from different cultures who live in the same place they’ve adopted as their new home. One dancer embodies the Spanish tradition of flamenco and the other embodies the North Indian Kathak tradition.

Will the dancers stay in rigid cultural silos and resist each other? Is this resistance necessary in order to preserve their own culture and traditions? Or, do they break down barriers and share each other’s values and coexist in harmony? Does coexistence mean traditions fade as they lose sense of what is “ours” and what is “theirs”? Can the adopted home put resistance and coexistence in equilibrium?

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***This performance was originally produced and sponsored by Emerging Young Artists (EYA). The length created was 12 minutes in collaboration with Tamar, Mushtari and Ahilan and was presented as an opening act of EYA’s contemporary art exhibition titled ‘De/Attachment’ at Narwhal Art Gallery in Toronto on March 17, 2018. We would like to credit them and note their support for the reproduction of Resist/Co-Exist for Virtual(ity): a digital exhibition.***