the skeleton is white
"Melally has managed to encapsulate an overwhelmingly huge topic into something beautiful, powerful and cool." - Quaere Living
A movement solo incorporating elements of South Asian Classical Dance and text to explore the stories that our bodies carry.
The work explores how the colour of our skin can affect our relationship to each other and to the environment that surrounds us. Our intrinsic DNA mechanisms have wired our body and mind to respond involuntarily in particular environments, triggering the fight, flight or freeze mode.
The work aspires to investigate the effects of the stress response system, and the ways in which it could manifest into the entire physicality of the person. As we move in a constantly changing world, how do we make our own bodies forget and disregard race? How do we erase the inscribed whiteness of the skeleton?
Creation and performance: Divija Melally
Music: Cristopher Serazzi
Dramaturgy: Vicki Hearne
With support from Pegasus Theatre and Dancin' Oxford
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Photo: David Fisher