Dominique Savitri Bonarjee, FR/IN/JP/ZW
artist, dancer, seeker
Instagram: @dominique_savitri
2024 How to Dream a Rasa Machine II, in-process sharing of instrument-as-installation collaboration with Pietro Bardini, supported by Iklectik Art Lab and Centre for Sound, Technology & Culture, Sound Immersion lab, Goldsmiths University of London.
2023 Dressed in Water, performance as guest dancer with Mutekisha Dance Company, Tokyo, Japan.
2023 How to Dream a Rasa Machine I, in-process sharing of wearable & electronic instrument-as-installation. A collaboration with Pietro Bardini (electronic composition), Drupad Mistry (sarod), Neeraj Mistry (tabla), Colet House, London.
2023 Dressed in Water, dance and poetry reading, La Maison du Butô Blanc, Normandy.
2023 Akousmata, collaborative performance led by Angelo Angelos aka Angel Dust, supported by Arts Council England London.
2023 Sui Generis, performance and ‘What do we know about free time?’ workshop, Realisation Festival, UK.
2023 Sui Generis, performance and Butoh dance event, Colet House, London.
2022 Environmental Art & Ecopoetics, film screening of AO, Oxford.
2022 Mind Rave at Sex Re-Boot, installation activation and sound event, Iklectik Art Lab.
2022 Proxy Bodies 2.0, Group Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute.
2022 E=H2O installation and activation, for Mixed Bag Art Research Exhibition, The Church, Goldsmiths University.
2021 And so it begins, solo installation, MARS Research Hub Gallery, Goldsmiths University.
2021 Centre for Sound Technology & Culture (Goldsmiths University) event, performance and presentation curated by Atau Tanaka at Iklectik Art Lab.
2021 Proxy Bodies 1.0, Group Exhibition, Hamilton MAS Gallery, Felixstowe.
2021 Japamala, Idolon Studio / Kunstfest Weimar 2021, performance and sound installation with Chaong-Wen Ting
2021 Transition Happens Through the Left Hand, Unfix Festival 2021, online.
2020 AO, dance film commission for Landscape & Goodness Research Group & Beyond Measure group exhibition, Cultural Institute, Uni. Leeds.
2020 Drifting Bodies Fluent Spaces, video work, Portugal and online.
2020 Field Trip Project Asia, installation, Museum of Marine Science and Technology and Bamboo Curtain Space, Taiwan.
2020 Hula-Dancing at the Sink, live-stream performance, commission by Domestic MCR.
2019 ILINX: Voluptuous Panic, performance installation, Goldsmiths Creekside Project Space.
2019 Collapse. Group performance, Chisenhale Dance Space.
2019 So Tired the Sea, collaboration for Astrida Neimanis’ audio-visual performance, Lofoten International Art Festival.
2019 Tales of Fabrication, performance-lecture, ASAP Symposium, Tai Kwun Centre, HK.
2019 Let the Music Make Them Dance, exhibition, MARs Research Hub Gallery, London.
2019 Collapse: Brexit, group performance in public space, London King’s Cross.
2019 Black Walks in Field Trip Project Asia, travelling group exhibition, BACC Bangkok.
2019 Crochet Resistance, screening and talk, Tate Exchange, London.
2019 How to Get What you Want, performance, KobaKant exhibition, Berlin.
2018 What do we know of Free Time? Performance/installation, Cloud/DansLab, The Hague.
2018 outländish, exhibition and procession, Gruntaler Galerie, Berlin.
2018 Theorem, group exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge.
2018 Choreography as Gift, dance research & performance, Theaterhaus Mitte, Berlin.
2018 From here to there is not visible from the very beginning, installation at The Gallery, MARs Centre, Goldsmiths University.
2018 Arcadia: The Invisible Realm, performance at Iwasaki Museum in collaboration with Kyoko Fujiwara, funded by Goldsmiths Research Award.
2017 Field Trip Project Asia / Black Walks, Kuala Lumpur Biennale, group exhibition.
2017 The Material Moment, performance & moving image collaboration with Chaong Wen Ting.
2017 The Curves of the Hours, installation, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan.
2017 P-Bodies Festival of Contemporary Performance, Leipzig.
2017 Between, group exhibition, A217 Gallery, London.
2016 Emergency, performance, Word of Warning, Manchester.
2016 Loitering with Intent, group exhibition, People’s History Museum, Manchester.
2016 ROTA durational performance, Kunstwoche Galerien Berlin, Galerie Wedding.
2016 Vacancies, group exhibition, Galerie Wedding, Berlin.
2016 Collapse # 4 – Manchester, participatory intervention at Hazard 2016.
2016 Sui Generis, performance installation, Water Tower Arts Festival, Bulgaria.
2015 Field Trip Project Asia / Black Walks, NIE Gallery Singapore; Vargas Museum, Philippines.
2015 ‘Collapse # 1 – Shimbashi, performance series in public space, Tokyo.
2015 Dark Matters, performance installation with Kaoru Murakami, Nakanojo Biennale Japan.
2015 Butoh Exchange International Dancers Series, Art Centre Keio University
2015 Nameless, joint exhibition with Ryo Shimizu, Hagiso Gallery, Tokyo.
2014 Black March Berlin, performance in public space.
// workshops, presentations, publications
2023 Butoh as Heard by a Dancer, book publication, Routledge (forthcoming September 2023)
2023 Butoh Mutations, dance and embodied self-inquiry workshops, Colet House, London.
2022 Embodiment Hackathon, dance, meditation & electronics event, Sussex University, UK.
2021 Society for Artistic Research, Lost Conference site, Vienna.
2019 Contemporary Drawing Research Symposium, Drawing Room Gallery, London.
2019 Futures of the Real, PG Annual Conference, Goldsmiths University, UK
2018 Intelligent Futures, CHASE Conference, Sussex University, UK
2018 Theorem: doctoral research in visual art & design. Conference & publication, Cambridge School of Art, UK
2017 Sacred Spaces conference, Liverpool Hope University, UK
2016 Made of Walking conference & residency, The Milena Principle, Delphi Greece
2015 Body in the Contemporary City, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona.
2015 Beyond Contamination, Performance Studies International (PSi) Conference | Aomori Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2015 Where to? The Future of Walking Arts, Falmouth University, UK
2014Berlin Butoh Festival, discussion moderator, Berlin
// residencies
2019 & 2018, Cloud DansLab, The Hague | artist in residence and presentation
2017 & 2015, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan | one month development residency and exhibition
2010, La NEF, Paris, France | artist in residence and public presentation
// awards & support
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice award, 2023
Arts Council England, Emergency Response Fund, 2020
Graduate School Fund, Goldsmiths University, 2020
Research Strategy Award, Art Department, Goldsmiths University, 2019
Invention Creativity and Experience Award (ICE) for art-science collaborations, Goldsmiths University, 2018
Sasakawa Foundation Grant, 2015
Lisa Ullmann Dance Scholarship Fund 2011, UK
Make A Difference Award 2011, UK
// education, training & non-rational activities*
Art & performance
Space of the Nameless: Art Research Doctorate, Goldsmiths University of London, (2017 – current) >>
MA Performance Art, 2007 | Central St Martins School of Art, London
Hindustani Classical Vocal, Bhavan Centre, London, 2022 – ongoing.
Singing as a Life Practice, ongoing classes with Emma Bonnici, UK, 2023
Tai Chi Chuan instructor in the Wudang Lineage, Integral Tai Chi, London, 2023.
Sufi Whirling Dervish in the Mevlevi Lineage, Study Society, Colet House, London, 2020.
Microphenomenology Interview Training with Claire Petitmengin, France, 2019.
Vipassana Buddhist Meditation initiate, Dhama Dipa, UK, 2019.
Butoh dance research & training with various masters in Japan, 2012 – 2017.
Pilgrimage to the Dewa-Sanzan and the Miira Monks of Yamagata, Japan, 2014.
Kumano Kodo solo pilgrimage, Japan 2014.
Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, Rishikesh, India, 2011.
Skinner Releasing Technique, dance course, Independent Dance, UK, 2009.
Contemporary dance training, various teachers, UK, USA, Germany, 2000 – present.
Psychedelic initiation ceremonies at Ngomakurira, Domboshawa, and other Zimbabwean spiritual sites. 2000 – 2003.
Yoga training and tutelage with Hector Bonarjee, author of Yoga Mysticism for Modern Man, since age 3.
- Thanks to Grace Ndritu who inspired me to share these secret activities.
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