divisions the empire has sown
divisions the empire has sown is a multi-year project of pateldanceworks considering the intersections of embodied research and activism and questions of resistance and resilience, dominance and dissonance, and the shadows of colonization that we are all part of today.
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divisions the empire has sown: rehearsal
the long shadow: writings
divisions the empire has sown, 2019
the long shadow: the tea party
the long shadow, 2020
the long shadow: duets
the long shadow: the trio
the prose of otherness: coming soon
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This project has been supported by West Valley College, Artists and Activists in Residence at the Berkeley Finnish Hall (a project of SENSE OBJECT), SAFEhouse Arts' Summer Performance Festival, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the India Center Foundation's South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund, Deborah Slater Dance Theater's Studio 210 Summer Residency, and the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Performers in this project since 2018 have included: KJ Dahlaw, Jordan Wanderer, Danielle Galvez, Daria Garina, Katherine House, Chelsea Boyd Brown, Rachel Austin, Bhumi B. Patel, Europa Baker-Brathwaite, Sarah Wentling, Rachael Litzinger, Casandra Armenta, and Madeleine Monroe.
