Visual Artist, Researcher, Performer, Facilitator

Contact

For more information contact Ashanti on ashantiharris.work@gmail.com

Project X please visit www.projectxplatform.co.uk or email ashantiharris.projectx@gmail.com

G.O.D.S please email getthebodyofagod@gmail.com

follow me on instagram @ashantisharda

I want mooooore! #sonicseance

Whole Sonic Seance team plus a little sister photo bomb! Once you work with an all female full cast and crew... How can you go back! So much love support and care alongside some serious creative energy, mind blowing skillzzzzz and incredible dedication. Thanks so much @variousdanceartists @melebroomes for the direction @_thefuries_ for being a sound tech wizard whilst dancing! @patriciapanther composing the seance @byumblebee signing the seance @claricia.kr producer extraordinaire, Sabrina Henry untouchable costume designer and stylist, @hanacallan lighting up the seance, @zephyrliddell stage managing and unmatchable set designer, @jenstillhere capturing the seance! @tiumakko for the beautiful photos And @ashantisharda ranting, chanting and reading and feeling so incredibly honored to be surrounded by these women, immersed in all that they conjur! 🧙🏾‍♀️🧡⚡

Harris Forbes Broomes family spec tac u lar 💜

Celebrating! It has been such a pleasure to perform with these four incredible women, making magic happen in Sonic Seance! @variousdanceartists @tmsomewhere @melebroomes @patriciapanther @_thefuries_ @byumblebee

Sonic Seance at Take Me Somewhere Festival DONE!!!!!

Sand moulds.... Making our history visible in BRONZE! The moulds are complete, fingers crossed all goes well with the pour next week.

Sonic Seance rehearsals, Week 1: complete! In time for the sunshine. #sonicseance @variousdanceartists #takemesomewhere @melebroomes @patriciapanther @_thefuries_ @ashantisharda

This Saturday I'm playing a purely SOCA set at COUNTERFLOWS in @theartskl from 11pm. It's gonna be a carnival, come for a dance! @counterflowsfest

Thanks to everyone who came to my artist talk at @eswsculpture last week and for moving with me and all your thoughtful questions. Next up.... I`ll be talking about my research into the dances of the African diaspora in Scotland as part of the Into The New Symposium at the Pearce Institute, Thursday 21st March at 2pm. Hopefully see you there!

YA DIG! at Rost March 2019. I love this photo with @_thefuries_ 📸@zephyrliddell #sparkleface #gold #killthebody #yadig

Infinitiiiiiiiiii with @melebroomes. 📸@zephyrliddell

Unapologetically us. Beige, Gold and Bold. Thanks @c.c.time and @aidaouttathetomb for a beautiful night at YA Dig March 2019. Hopefully the first of many! 📸 @zephyrliddell

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT at New venue ROST. So excited for a dance! To Book tix click the link in my bio.

Anyone in Edinburgh this Thursday, I'll be doing a talk/performance/workshop in Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 6-7.30pm. I'll be talking about past works and sharing some of my current research about Guyanese women in Scotland in the 18th & 19th century. 🇬🇾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💃🏾

What a gorgeous time! 2 weeks working with @melebroomes in Creative Lab at @cca_glasgow preparing for a new @project_x_dance collaboration

Doll Thomas Queen of the Demarara, in Bronze. Happy International Woman's Day 💜

Wednesday 27th Feb, 3.30pm G.O.D.S MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
as part of Limbo: Wellbeing at the Art School hosted by GSA students association. I will be teaching in @theartskl alongside the wonderful @_thefuries_ more info below 👇🏾 "Since the power to be affected and to affect, to be moved and move, [...] is constitutive of the body, there is an immanent politics residing in it: the capacity to transform itself, others, and the world." - Sylvia Federici

This workshop begins with the moving, dancing body. Drawing from a wide constellation of practices, propositions, exercises, scores, perspectives and people, we will work with the act of movement and dance as an exploration of what the body can do, it capacities, it's languages and its articulations. We will begin with a series of exercises which will question how we can physically, collectively and individually be in movement, re-defining our relationship to space, our environment and each other.
We will use this space to move, share, dance, sweat, shake and question. Welcoming all forms and expressions of identity and experiences, we will begin together from wherever we all are. Wear what makes you feel comfortable.
Glasgow Open Dance School (G.O.D.S) was founded in 2011 by artists Romany Dear, Letitia Pleiades and Ashanti Harris. G.O.D.S is a non-profit organisation which facilitates free dance and movement, focused activities in different locations in Glasgow. G.O.D.S is open to everyone and we aim to provide workshops for people of all abilities. We believe that everyone is a dancer! And everyone is a teacher! And we create spaces that are supportive for people trying new things and exploring movement.

REMINDER! TOMORROW! Saturday 16th Feb, Dance workshop with Mele Broomes. 2pm-3.30pm in Upstairs in The Art School, 20 Scott St, Glasgow.

Free of charge! All welcome. Wear comfortable clothes and trainers . See you there!

@melebroomes #PROJECTX #dancesoftheafricanandcaribbeandiaspora #contemporarydance #dance @ashantisharda @theartskl