Shivaangee is a dancer, maker and researcher with an experimental practice that orbits sound-making, collective composition and creative technology. Their choreographic approach foregrounds folk dance influences; Shivaangee is interested in relational + social virtuosity rather than more conventional forms of spectacle.
Shivaangee works across different roles in the studio, including choreographing, rehearsal directing, facilitating and audio describing. Underpinning these different modes of working is a commitment to holding space carefully, and with accountability.
They are constantly curious about dance as a medium through which we can stay with our multiplicities - across our physical, social, relational, autobiographical and political experiences.
Understand more about their work here, and more about their thinking here.
NEW! Saturday 31st May - Saturday 21st June: Come Rest in Chaos: Creative Workshops for Professional Artists
Over 4 weekends, you are invited into a communal, embodied and reflective space to consider your choreographic practice in relation to your lived experience. Following on from the Artist Lab in September 2024, Shivaangee returns to The Place for an extended deep dive into the Velocities practice.
Each of the four days will be intricate and carefully developed, held by collective rituals of moving together, reflecting together and resting together. Readings and texts will be optionally offered ahead of each week, to shape conversations and discussions during the session. Though dance experience is not specifically required to take part, it is expected that you can be comfortable in non-verbal improvisations, and that you are in dialogue with your own artistic practice.