Amorphous: A Dance x Film Project devised by Ronita Mookerji & Priyanshi Vasani

Amorphous is a personal visual-journal of two Female Artists exploring the question of Identity and ‘Being’ through the language of Contemporary Dance and Visual Documentation. The self research based experimental collaboration highlights the female physical form in its raw state of pure feminine energy and as a body that holds history of generations of women in their family, thereby exploring what is beyond this ‘Form’ in the presentday context of Contemporary, globalised India. The deeprooted, guttural and instinct based complex dialogue between the contemporary movement artist and the visual artist/documentarian has resulted in stimulating a creative collaborative process that involves intrinsic (Improvised & Structured dance) and extrinsic (Film & Visual Documentation) elements being the origination of the story building/narrative of this piece of artwork. This piece talks about an experiential, emotional journey of deeply personal stories of the artists’ in relation to their grandmothers, mothers – a generation of feminine identity or feminine power in nature and its pure elemental states and results in layers of female identity being documented and addressed. 'Amorphous’ essentially means being ‘formless’ or something that doesn’t have a definite structure and renders something vague and shapeless. Amorphous is a complex conversation involving what is stored in the physical body authentically as felt-reality and cognitive memories that are experienced and the external manifestation of it through visual documentation leading to creating a world of power and vulnerability experienced by the dancer who is the subject of the story-telling. It also deals with ‘Beingness’ – a state that is in relation to itself. It explores the two states of Form and Formlessness that co-exist at a given time and space and has a synergic flow from one to the other giving rise to an intermediate state of ‘lesser form’.

Date  - 19th June, 2022
Time - 06:00 PM
Location  - 1st floor (Amphitheatre)

Name of the Participating Artists - Ronita Mookerji 

Ronita Mookerji is an award-winning Choreographer and Performer and works as an Independent Contemporary Dance Artist/Teacher for over 13 years now. Before, she has been trained in Bharatanatyam ( Indian Classical Dance ) for over 20 years. She has done a Diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media in 2008 at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore. She was a part of the Attakkalari Dance Repertoire from 2009-16. . She won THE BEST PERFORMER AWARD in PECDA 2016 for “WHO?” which later won the funding for THE BENCH PROJECT 2017,toured 8 cities in UK & London. In Germany, she worked with THEATREBREMEN(2014-16) as a Guest Performer from the Goethe Institute(India&Germany) for  “BELLEVILLE “ choreographed by Samir Akika. Ronita has been an Artist-in-Residence in many countries like Australia, Japan ,U.K., South Korea. Some of her choreographies are “I See Dreams in Grey’’( JAPAN) , Zameen (AUSTRALIA), “WE Need the Heaters ON” (JAPAN), “Thinking Inside the Box” (Germany), Power Trip (London & India), Amorphous (A Dance Film Project, India).
She has just returned from a tour in Germany (2021) of her recent endeavour : An Audio-Visual Immersive Performance “ If We Vanish” funded by the Goethe Institute Co-Production Fund along with Multi-disciplinary Artists and touring in India too. 
She has done Theatre Productions also, namely, Khwaab-Sa with The Company Theatre, I Am Not Here & A Brief History of Hair by Deepika Arwind. At Present, she is teaching Contemporary Dance/ Movement online in her series Restrictive Spaces over 2 years since the Pandemic and has also choreographed an online Students’ Performance INERTIA. She has also performed on several online platforms naming ALT.CNTRL.FEMME, Sanskar Online International Performance Festival with her self choreographies AMORPHOUS along with Priyanshi Vasani and LET’S CALL IT A NIGHT with Gaby Davies. She is also a certified Yoga Instructor.
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