Copy of the Copy is a new performance work by Dr. Priya Srinivasan, premiering at Dancehouse in August.

The work features dance, live musicians, participatory cooking and visual projections.

Webpage description below:

— Sit with the past, dance with discomfort, reimagine new futures together

What does it mean to be an artist fractured by culture, geography, and memory? What does it mean to be a copy of the copy such that the origins become obscured? In these divided times, how can we use humour and healing to move forward from these histories of entanglements to find the threads of truth telling that connect us?

Blending dance, live and recorded sound, digital interactive projection, and participatory cooking, Copy of the Copy responds to the invisibility of Indian bodies in Western artistic canons and uncovers lost connections between pioneering women dancers whose stories have long been silenced. Held by Srinivasan’s exquisite storytelling and the ensemble of stunning live music, Copy of the Copy brings together Indian, Sri Lankan, and Anglo-European artists in a shared ritual of remembrance, resistance, and reimagining.

Celebrate the power of politics, poetics and cultural exchange and step into an immersive journey where movement, music, storytelling, and recipes converge.