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Dance Lab 2018: What can we do with dance today?

This was a collaboration with Saša Asentić - performance maker and cultural worker from Serbia, living in Berlin; founder and the artistic director of Per.Art’s Art and Inclusion program for artists with learning disabilities in Novi Sad, Serbia (since 1999) who is interested in exploring the relationship between the individual and society in terms of social choreography.

Saša in conversation with choreographers Chan U Hong and Guo Rui about the contemporary dance scene in Macau, understood that the local dance community in Macau had few opportunities to meet with international colleagues and share resources, ideas, energies, concerns, solutions.

As a response to curate Dance Lab ‘18 Saša proposed encounters between local dance community and 6 international artists to share contemporary and conceptual dance practices through diverse formats specific to their practice.

Dance Lab (Macau) was an attempt towards a genuine meeting of bodies, critically reflecting on the precarious position of freelance dance artists today in order to think together about ways to strengthen our stand as independent artists by creating collaborations.

My contribution was A TRANSIENT LOG BY AMAARA RAHEEM, Macau, 2018

Here in Macau, ‘logging’ was an ongoing practice that engaged with the flows of information; working playfully with geographical coordinates we located our position in the world in relationship to each other and our sense of place; working with site-specific movement and words we made a ‘map’ of our experiences, measuring the immeasurable.