ASHANTI Harris

Digital Video, 2018

The movement narratives of colonialism and post-colonialism have led to the evolution of hybrid dance and movement practices which, through the transformational aspects embedded in the movement as well as the embodiment of cultural/inter-cultural identities, function as a living archive of these diasporic narratives, re-contextualised within the present, live body performing them. An Archive: The Rehearsal explores the moving dancing body as a repository of incorporated histories; A transformative archive which can only be shared through the physical teaching and sharing from body to body. This work was made in collaboration with choreographer, Erick Mauricia Valentin.