Scores for Solidarity

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‍ELEMENT#9: Care Index
June - July 2021

Dance Nucleus will be hosting Alecia Neo as part of ELEMENT#9 Research Project. Care Index builds upon Alecia Neo's, between Earth and Sky, which was developed with a group of caregivers in Singapore. Envisioned as an experimental platform that collects practices of care performed by people from different walks of life. Care Index is also a series of performative scores. The practices offer tools for the transference of sensations of well-being and aliveness to others.

In ELEMENT#9, Alecia Neo will form a working group consisting of artists, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in care practices - such as Covid-19 front-liners, educators, people performing non-professional care work.

The video and audio scores which emerged from this residency will be presented via a workshop for The Listening Biennial.

Working Group:

Alecia Neo (Artist)

Meghna Bhardwaj (Dance practitioner, educator at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India) with her students from the Undergraduate Dance Minor programme at the Department of Arts and Performing Arts: Tarini Anchan, Khushi Garg, Kavya SM, Anushikha Chaudhuri, India

Wong Yunjie (Theatre artist, researcher, front-liner worker), Singapore

Carol Ee (Caregiver), Singapore

Alvyna Han (Caregiver), Singapore

Project Advisors/Collaborators:

Yang Yeung (Curator, Founding member & Artistic Director of soundpocket), Hong Kong

Sharda Harrison (Theatre artist), Singapore

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More info on ELEMENT#9 can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UsJ05slCkbFT6RoYjssvO2Z_CuX42Oop/view?usp=sharing

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EMBODIED SCORES

The following embodied scores are contributed by two caregivers and three of the student participants from the working group, after partaking in a series of online workshops co-conducted by Meghna Bhardwaj and Alecia Neo. The student participants also had the opportunity to receive feedback on their scores from Marina Collard, an independent choreographer and movement artist based out of UK. She is currently a Lecturer of Dance at Trinity Laban. They also participated in the workshops by Delhi based dance film maker, Sumedha Bhattacharyya.

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