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In search of home
India-based choreographer Daksha Sheth uses a poem by bilingual Indian poet Sujata Bhat “In Search of My Tongue” as a starting point for Tongues Untied. “By a coincidence, we both come from Ahmedabad in Gujerat, near Bombay. The poem deals with the plight of children brought up away from home, with no connection with their mother tongue, who want to return to their roots when they grow up.”
In India, Sheth drew on her diverse movement tradition from Chhau, Kalaripayattu and Yoga martial arts, folk forms, classical and contemporary dance to create a movement language matched by Devarissaro’s hypnotic score for percussion, bansuri (sambal flute) and electronic keyboards overlaid with EnglishGujerati poem fragments.
The piece traces a young woman’s search for sustenance in barren terrain, recollecting moments of her life in India: meeting a water seller, at the village station, her mother singing in the kitchen. In a dynamic final section, dancers tangle like long legged sand flies in a paeon to a
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Pawlet Brookes MBE is the founder, CEO and artistic director of Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage. An experienced and highly respected senior leader and producer, Brookes has been at the forefront of the development of Black arts in the UK since she was appointed Marketing Manager at the Nia Centre (Manchester) in the 90s, then Artistic Director of Peepul Centre (Leicester) and ultimately Chief Executive of Rich Mix (London).
Brookes has been the Arts Council assessor for a number of Black arts capital projects, such as Bernie Grant Arts Centre (London) and National Centre for Carnival Arts (Luton). She has over 30 years’ experience as a cultural leader with expertise in partnership building, international programming and cultural diversity. She is the trailblazer behind several initiatives with arts and cultural organisations both in the UK and internationally.
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