Conversation.1 / On crafting, choreography & lineage
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This episode hosts a conversation between Amaara Raheem speaking from Australia and Rosemary Lee speaking from the UK.
Amaara is a Sri Lankan born Australian grown dance-artist who lived fifteen years in London. She's now based part-time in Melbourne and regional Victoria (Black Range) engaged in co-making a residential hub for reparative and speculative practices.
Rosemary is a choreographer, director and performer based in London. Her work is characterised by an interest in creating a moving portraiture of both individuals and the communities she brings together in site-specific performance works.
In this conversation Amaara and Rosie, coworkers in 2020, pick up on themes of crafting, making and movement across generations, countries and in choreographic practice; how different registers of meaning shift perspectives of value over time. As they speak they are each also busy making and mending, which is a kind of stand-in for the dancing in Satelliser. Whilst being in conversation over the year, many of us have occupied ourselves in similar ways as a way to ground our attention, whether through drawing, embroidery or basket-making.
This conversation reflects an intimacy across distances that many of us have experienced through the whole of the project. Amaara and Rosie speak from opposite sides of the world, at opposite ends of the day, at the beginning of autumn and the beginning of spring.
Image: Steve Tanner
Rosemary Lee (she/her)
Known for working in a variety of contexts and media, Rosemary creates large-scale site-specific works with cross-generational casts, solos for herself and other performers, video installations and short films. Her work is characterised by an interest in creating a moving portraiture of the performing individuals and communities she brings together, whilst also exploring and highlighting our relationship with our environment.
Rosemary’s work is produced by Artsadmin. She is currently a Work Place affiliate artist, Senior Research Fellow at C-DaRE Coventry University, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Roehampton University, and an Honorary Fellowship from Trinity Laban.
Amaara Raheem (she/her)
Amaara Raheem is a Sri Lankan born Australian grown dance-artist who lived fifteen years in London. She's now based part-time in Melbourne and regional Victoria (Black Range) engaged in co-making a residential hub for reparative and speculative practices investigating the blur between life, art, and climate. Currently completing a practice-led PhD at School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University, Amaara crosses borders: cultural, spatial, disciplinary, geographic, linguistic, cosmic.