Chalking

What does it mean to align oneself in space and time?

Five performers build and unbuild an idea of circularity. A specific language, at once unfamiliar yet somehow inclusive of the multiple aesthetics the dancers represent, is articulated. A language that, in one way, has the precision of an ancient form, but one that is rooted in functionality rather than the decorative / narrative.

"Chalking" deconstructs a body’s rotational possibilities—turning, spinning—into a vocabulary of tension and resistance, inscribing absence at the very heart of the body’s presence with others.

The performance segments and arcs movement— drawing, erasing, and recharting encounters. The compositional structure is non-narrative, a material grid that stages the politics of dance, of what it means to align oneself in absence, in the presence of others.”

— Padmini Chettur, choreographer