Choreographing the City Masterclass with Rajinder Singh

In this movement workshop, the South Asian ritual of turban tying functions as a constructive principle for new decentered ways of exploring and understanding spatial justice. How can we make the spatial explicit and assertive in justice? Going beyond a western, moral and human-centered view of spatial justice, Singh works in a space of folds with haptics of fabric to stimulate senses of touch and motion, the body’s physicality and its responsiveness, to create ‘sculptures’ as inhabitable spaces for the body. Singh’s soft ritual-centered fabric-based choreographies create orbiting centers that explore and connect explicitly with the spatiality in justice and injustice.

Rajinder Singh is a London based Malaysian-Irish artist who explores the human body as an interface between space, object and movement, and prepares the ground to orientate the body towards politics, towards its capacity for resistance. A movement artist and choreographer, he explores ideas around the vulnerable body and its pain, interrogating the economies of power that deny it space and shape.

Hosted by Siobhan Davies

Dates: 23rd July 2023 

Time: 1-5pm

Fee: £35  

Email your questions to lou@theatrum-mundi.org

BOOK

As part of the course, you will receive three publications part of our Choreographing the City collection: Encounters, Embodying Otherness and Navigations.