Shabari Rao

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Shabari Rao is an artist and academic from Bangalore, India. Her work is rooted in practice based research and engages with education, mental health, gender, the environment. The body plays a central role in her work, which is located within social, cultural and political contexts. Her work is collaborative and emergent in nature and takes the shape of performing, directing, teaching, writing, and more recently, experimental film and audio work. Over the last 20 years her work has been presented internationally through conferences, festivals, residencies and publications. In 2021 she is sharing her work at the Magdalena Festival, at the IFTR annual conference. Her current projects include piloting a training programme that is at the intersection of performing arts and mental health, and working with Justice Initiative, using performance the tell the stories of women in prison in Karnataka, India.

Shabari holds a BA in Kathak and Choreography (Bangalore University), a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies (Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, UK) and an MA with distinction, in Dance and Education (Royal Academy of Dance, UK).

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Embodiment and Social Distancing: Performances

by Kristine Samson and Shabari Rao

Journal of Embodied Research

A collection of five video essays on embodiment and social distancing, with a focus on performanc... more A collection of five video essays on embodiment and social distancing, with a focus on performances. ELLEN KRESS, "Rest is Resistance: Embodied Reflections of the Retraction Period in the Creative Process" (00:10): This video essay contemplates the role that rest performs in my own creativity, connecting the labor movement, technology and the radical act of restorative rest. LASSE MOURITZEN AND KRISTINE SAMSON, "Pandemic Encounters" (05:34): As social distance became a daily routine, urban lives changed into sites of strange encounters, negotiating proximity and presence anew. JOSIAH PEARSALL, "I All Occur Within Arm's Reach" (10:24): This video performance from April and May 2020 explores my embodied position in an isolated and constrained world; my world exists within the frame of a desk and a computer. SHABARI RAO, "Nothing to Show" (15:45): We are constantly redrawing and rediscovering our sense of self through feedback (intended and unintended) that we receive through physically sharing space with different people in a variety of environments. With social distancing, that range of environments is severely and suddenly restricted. What happens to my sense of self in these circumstances? How do I know who I am? What do I have to show the world and my self to confirm my sense of self? CHARLOTTA RUTH, "What is liveness and what can it be?" (19:59): Rethinking Alfred Schütz's essay "On multiple realities" for online to offline existence.

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