About this Event
Sari Stories with Beeja
Join artists from Beeja for a two-hour interactive workshop exploring identity, memory, belonging and cultural exchange through the sari. Hear stories about the sari's many lives, as a garment, a memory, a connection to home and a carrier of culture, and share your own experiences of clothing, identity, migration and belonging.
Try different sari draping styles, learn simple movement inspired by the stories shared, and help create a short contemporary movement piece drawing on South Asian dance traditions. The session closes with an informal celebration and a shared presentation of the drapes, stories and movement made together.
About the artists
Beeja was founded by Anusha Subramanyam, a dancer, choreographer, teacher and dance movement therapist working both inside and outside the bharatanatyam tradition. Beeja, meaning "seed", works as a collective to make Indian dance accessible to wider audiences, performing everywhere from mainstream venues to museums, hospitals, schools and village halls. beeja.com
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Free
Drop in when you can
Open to all backgrounds, no dance experience or knowledge of the sari needed
In the Common Room, Export Building
Questions? Email [email protected]
Event venue & nearby stays
Republic London - The Common Room (Export Building), 1 Clove Crescent, London, United Kingdom
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