Description
Monique Sundree-Latchmi Rodgers
Womyn in Water: Decolonizing Self, Community and Place
A Participatory Performance by the River Dart
Wednesday June 29 • 11.30 – 13.00
About the Performance:
The performance is a movement and voice performance around and in the River Dart. It is a dynamic and participatory performance.
The audience will be arranged in a semi-circle, creating an amphitheater around the river bed. The performance will open with a written piece sharing on water: a piece on dancing around and in water as a way of deep mapping, a way of knowing water, a means of personifying water. The performance is one that explores how diverse gatherings, movement, and song can decolonise watery spaces. How these modalities can be a way in which humans can heal, and foster a knowing and subsequent stewardship over watery spaces, and our wider shared home our earth. The performance will move into the River Dart, where a movement sequence of 3 min will be moved through. Afterwhich the audience will be invited to move closer to the river bed edging the stream, to hold hands and sing and hum collectively a common chorus, the chorus of a Hindu hymn.
Whilst the performance is ongoing, a sound artist will record different aspects of the performance – words from the initial circle opening, sounds of the birds or wind, trickling of water, and collective song to capture as a single performance track.
In the scenario the symposium was to move to online, I imagine a way the performance could shift to a workshop format to be delivered to an online-only audience. Similar themes and goals, delivered in a workshop manner, is a possibility.
About Monique:
Monique Angelique Rodgers is an MA Movement, Mind and Ecology Masters student at Schumacher College. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of environmentalism and how a transdisciplinary and diverse-focused approach to environmentalism is more inclusive, and as such, possibly the single most powerful approach to working towards climate justice. Her work thus far explores the value of transformative outdoor education, particularly in under-resourced communities in developing countries such as South Africa. Upon graduating her master’s, she intends to pursue a PhD focusing on fostering community stewardship through nature immersion.
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