breathing together::Performance installation

Dancehouse + SEVENTH Gallery

BREATHING TOGETHER is a new collaboration in partnership with Dancehouse and SEVENTH Gallery, bringing dance-art communities together to respond to choreographies of air. Originally conceived in a practice called 'wind meeting' where Amaara collaborated with three interior designers to meet with wind at The Performance Arcade in Wellington (2018), the Room to Move Residency at Dancehouse became a new pocket for Amaara to expand on histories and futures of her own and others' inhalation, exhalation.

During her residency Amaara invited a number of collaborators to drift into the studio and make small punctures in the atmosphere. This allowed her to muse on aerial space, breath poetics, choreographing sound, and words that refuse to vanish such as Mr Garner's final words — "I can't breathe" — which became a rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter movement. The research and practice from this residency results in a public program and sound installation at SEVENTH Gallery — a one-off event that invites flows of air and people; moving with, or being moved by atmospheric things, listening with the whole body. Borrowing from contemporary opera, BREATHING TOGETHER is a Breath Cycle breathed/sung/spoken/danced in three movements, with a prelude and an overture.

Choreographer, performer, writer: Amaara Raheem 
Singer, performer: Susan Bamford Caleo
Writer, performer: Theron Schmidt
Improviser, performer: Peter Trotman
Musician: Jon Di Napoli
Sound Engineer, Dramaturge: Roslyn Oades

WHERE: Seventh Gallery
DATE: Saturday, November 30
TIME: 6:30pm and 8:00pm
DURATION: 60 mins

Supported by Room to Move Residency, Dancehouse, City of Yarra Small Grant & SEVENTH Gallery