Duty Free: Paradox of Language
- Free
- Dance
- Performance
Curated by
Ranjana Dave
The Old GMC Complex
First Floor, GMC Building
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Paradox of Language is a choreographic and musical composition that brings together two performers in a precarious balance, or rather, negotiation of the space shared between one another and the one shared with the audience, inspired by Mizo folk practices and the embedded knowledge systems within them. With the audience free to move and observe, the piece unfolds like a living dialogue between the two performers as they exchange roles (musician/dancer), to co-create and compose with the audience, while transforming the physical space into a layered experience that blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, form and imagination, history and memory. The performances will also be followed by workshops.
Conceptualised as part of Duty Free curated by Ranjana Dave.
A medical college. The human body. You might expect examination, diagnosis and treatment, but Duty Free serves up movement encounters and sensorial discoveries. Rather like its namesake at the airport, it sets itself up as a space of wonder and curiosity. Over eight days, three dance artists take turns inhabiting a riverfront verandah in the Old Goa Medical College building, making it both studio and stage.
Duty Free is open through the day, functioning as an exhibition space and embodied archive, interspersing the behind-the-scenes labour of dance – improvisation, repetition, failure – with performances and workshops at scheduled intervals. Its artists set up interactions that are tactile, embodied, textual and aural, offering movement prompts and traces of their practice for you to engage with.
Duty Free is commissioned by Serendipity Arts for Serendipity Arts Festival 2025.
Performers: Joshua Sailo, Abhaydev Praful
Scenographer: Sukanya Ghosh
