Samita Sinha: Breathing Room
Open to all levels!
Wednesday, September 23, 10am-1pm ET (guest facilitator: Julia Ulehla) – Sign up here
Wednesday, October 21, 10am-1pm ET (guest facilitator: Julia Ulehla) – Sign up here
Wednesday, November 18, 10am-1pm ET (guest facilitator: Okwui Okpokwasili – Sign up here
Wednesday, December 16, 10am-1pm ET (guest facilitator: Cesar Alvarez) – Sign up here
A link will be sent to registrants in advance of each session.
Admission: Sliding scale of $0-$20 per session. Participants are invited to choose what to pay based on your circumstances. We ask that you be honest with yourself and your financial situation. You are welcome to attend for FREE if that makes the most sense for you.
The series will offer an accumulation of tools, knowledge, and pathways, however there is no requirement to attend all sessions.
“Breathing Room is a virtual space to reclaim life force. To open channels through voice and body. To come together, and be apart. To feel. To sense. To listen. To listen deeper, to be heard. To be naked. To be complicated. To be fragile. To rebel. To be sacred.” -Samita Sinha
In this series, artist and composer, Samita Sinha, will lead participants in vocal practice, followed by in-depth conversations with guest artists and participants. Sinha will teach energy threads, or miniature compositions, adapted from Indian vocal traditions. There will be space to work in shared solitude, as well as to sound together. “Embracing the medium of technology, we will play with making vibration-formations of our collective body through the process of listening and sounding,” writes Sinha.
Each month Sinha will be joined by a guest artist who will help facilitate reflection and conversation following the sonic travels. Guests include vocalist/composer, Julia Ulehla, artist/performer, Okwui Okpokwasili, and composer/performer, Cesar Alvarez.
Accessibility: Please email seta@danspaceproject.org to request CART live captioning or any other access requests. Requests should be submitted at least three weeks ahead of any one session.
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.
