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Archipelago Archives Exhibit #3:
If I could set with the sun
Synopsis
If I could set with the sun is a 3-hour durational
performance that undertakes the construction
of dances in the Indian Ocean, somewhere
between India and Indonesia.
Conceptualised by Kiran Kumar (India), this
dance-making process is part reconstructive,
part speculative,
part archaeological,
part anthropological and
part fantastical.
The focus here is not to merely present dance
as an accomplished object, but as a continual
process embedded in the aesthetic, social,
political, cultural and economic milieu of
contemporary South and South-East Asia.