Archive For The “DeBrahminize + DeColonize Dance” Category
View this post on Instagram Look behind you and keep that paw and tail prepared even as you move forward. In a world rooted in true community accountability and trust building, apologies might be enough (because you know your community watching you). But in this world nothing short of restitution really counts. Make your words…
View this post on Instagram exercises to strengthen wrists – love note to friendooo >>> just a diasporic south asian sharing millennia old Adivasi embodied medicine (who else but people who live close to the earth?) with their loved ones. follow along and take care for yourself. i am not a licensed practitioner or anything….
Performance + Installation this Sat 10/20 Noon-3pm Mass Art Green Arts Fest North Godine Gallery Concept cw: going deep. reflections on genocide During this time of harvest, people who grow gather foods for feast and revelry. during this time too some empire people burn effigies of indigenous leaders of the past who their people subdued…
Some dance-in-community language protocols we continue to develop in community when sharing AbunDance – a meditative song + dance initiative #communityAbunDance acknowledging and exploring the components that go into complex legacies of oppression that might be embedded in our bodies through dance and song and figuring out ways to hold the complexity and apply it…
Stills from bare necessities video art ? that accompanied song n dance routine These are the images that shape what turns us on and more importantly justify the violence against people made out to be perpetrators protecting the people extracting land and labor through violence. We need to understand this and extract it from inside…
documenting #qarnival and a demo of AbunDance #communityAbunDance #decolonizingdance #queeringdance #debrahmanizingdance A segment from demo-ing AbunDance – a community meditation and song initiative rooted in movement experiments seeking to #decolonizeBuddhism #decolonizedance#debrahmanizedance #decolonizeBuddhism #decolonizedance#debrahmanizedance At the end you begin to hear a transition from “On whose shoulders do we rest” to another mantra “Honesty inside Art” relevant…
Some dance-in-community language protocols we continue to develop in community when sharing AbunDance – a meditative song + dance initiative #communityAbunDance acknowledging and exploring the components that go into complex legacies of oppression that might be embedded in our bodies through dance and song and figuring out ways to hold the complexity and apply it…
Note: Dharma is Dhamma Dhamma is wayfinding for truth. and Buddha truth was radical already – he said any form of social stratification is harmful to our growth – he called for the eradication of caste Reading Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s The Buddha and His Dhamma in preparation for Buddhist Peace Fellowship Block Build Be Retreat. I’m…
Breaking ground My body is no longer sacred in the toxic ways I’ve been taught But it remains sacred I don’t plan to contribute to my ancestry I will be the last in a line I honor the eldest ancestors who were dreaming of me I ask my eldest ancestors now to hold me And…
View this post on Instagram #ode to #barasinghadeer #goldendeer #swampdeer deer with the most majestic antlers extinct in Bengal region due to kings hunts Rooting into acknowledging empire in me so I don't appropriate indigenous animism #firstpass on the land of the Pipl peoples #lagodecoatepeque Music by @tapewallah #mappingvoicetosarangi Documentation by @zxipex Poem Flash of…