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Image from Samita Sinha’s “Voice as Matter” workshop at Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City. She and a student are lying on the ground in a moment of vocal work.
Photo: Daniela Martinez and Alejandro Arce.

Samita Sinha: Breathing Room Residency

Artist and composer Samita Sinha investigates origins of voice: quantum entanglement of listening and sounding, how voice emerges from body and consciousness, and how voice is claimed and rescued from voicelessness. She synthesizes Indian vocal traditions and embodied energetic practices to create a decolonized, bodily, multivalent language of vibration and transformation.

In 2020-21 Sinha led a virtual series of vocal practice with guest artists and participants called Breathing Room.

Danspace has invited Sinha to return to continue research sparked by this multi-year process.

This residency is not open to the public.

Artist and composer Samita Sinha investigates origins of voice: quantum entanglement of listening and sounding, how voice emerges from body and consciousness, and how voice is claimed and rescued from voicelessness. She synthesizes training in Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, Bengali Baul tradition, and embodied energetic practices to create a decolonized, bodily, multivalent language of vibration and transformation. Sinha’s sound and performance works have been commissioned by Asia Society, Performance Space 122 and Invisible Dog Art Center, Danspace, Rubin Museum, Queens Museum, and Gibney Dance, and presented by The Kitchen, Wexner Center for the Arts, REDCAT, PICA, National Sawdust and others. She has received awards from National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, National Performance Network, New York State Council on the Arts and the Ucross/Alpert Residency Prize, and collaborated across disciplines with artists including Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Ralph Lemon, Sunny Jain and Grey Mcmurray, Fiona Templeton, Daria Fain, Julia Ulehla, Robert Ashley, Dani Restack, Sunil Bald, and Aki Onda. Sinha teaches voice through many channels—in addition to private lessons and workshops, she has in recent years taught at Princeton University, Swarthmore College, Movement Research, Rubin Museum, Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART) in Mexico City, and New York Asian Women’s Center.

Selah V. Hampton, Ogemdi Ude, and Symara Johnson in Ogemdi Ude’s “I know exactly what you mean,” May 2022, Part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Photo: Ian Douglas.

Summer 2022 at Danspace Project

Thanks to all who joined us back at our home for Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) this Spring! Please visit our Online Journal for Platform video footage, images, and writing from mayfield brooks, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, iele paloumpis,Ogemdi Ude, and others.

Stay tuned for announcements about live, in-person performances this Fall, including premieres by Mina Nishimura and Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez, some very special partnerships, and the return of live DraftWork — our work-in-progress series curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones — in the Danspace sanctuary!

You can help us provide artists with the resources to make work and to welcome you back to performances in September! Donate to Danspace Project today!

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See you in September,

Danspace Project staff

 

 

 

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