Dimple B Shah
Rites to Passage
A four session practice-based performance workshop
The practice-based workshop will share a process of rituals to connect points of our self-body mind and the environment around us. The workshop will facilitate connecting Body, Mind, and Nature. There are multiple ways to enter and learn different methodologies to understand these processes and to connect the points. We inhabit Nature, often we forget about our bodies and the Natural/urban Environment around us. This workshop will guide us in a process of reconnection to connect us to a deeper consciousness. I will draw on various techniques and methods that will help us to join random points of connection. These processes are developed from research on into performative rituals from my culture. I have been incorporating these elements and, it has helped me seek my answers. It is the process one can follow to start with, to form their style and language. These processes are a foundation for future understanding of self with Nature and our surroundings. This workshop seeks to be a journey to activate inner consciousness aligning to the macrocosmic and microcosmic world.
Workshop Schedule:
Single Workshop sessions from Friday June 03 - Saturday June 11, 2022
Friday June 03, 2022 @10:00 - 11:30am CT
The first session will focus on the essential aspects
To explain the process and the importance of rituals in performance art
To introduce a few relevant elements of rituals
Role of Nature, Body, and Mind in performance
Body-mind exercises
Saturday June 04 @8:00am - 9:30am CT
Learn some techniques of rituals
Introduction to some of the meditative techniques (Macrocosmic and Microcosmic)
Friday June 10 @10:00am - 11:30am CT
Working with Nature, body, and mind exercises to understand space, collecting and coordinate meditative techniques to understand the divine elements in Nature and Body
Body in rituals
Identifying the essential elements by working in the space
Saturday June 11 @8:00am - 9:30am CT
Aliening, directing action and moment
Ritual dance
Observation and responses
All sessions are 90mins long
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Living on the edge: Utopian Land by Dimple B Shah
Curated by Qing-cai and Bel-Ling Pure Land, Taiwan Performance Festival
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Prayer of a Shaman - Encountering Catharsis by Dimple B Shah
Live Stream public performance on October 1, 2020
Out of Site in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio