In this episode we speak with social art-ivist Anima Jhagroe-Ruissen about rhythm, silences and separation. We discuss the co-creation of knowledge that happens during dance and how this changes the performer and observer. We also dive into dominant aesthetics and ideas around purity of practice before listening to the rhythm of Animas ghungroos.
Anima Jhagroe-Ruissen is a social art-ivist, who uses dance and henna art to challenge the exclusion of women of colour in dominate narratives within academic and performance spaces. Through her experience of being of Indo-Caribbean and Dutch descent, Anima’s art encourages us to think, feel and live in-between and beyond dominant narratives. The chum-chum of her ghungroos teaching us that we can communicate with more than just words.
Music also Anima.
Music for the podcast is produced and performed by Ntomb'Yelanga, whose work is aimed at the preservation, promotion and creation of indigenous instruments and music in South Africa. Her current project, Songs of our Ancestors, explores how ancient sounds ingoma is a language, a memory and a dream we bring to life through intergenerational connections and sound dialogue, where the body is seen as a living archive of these sounds. Makwande sibamba ngazo zombili.http://www.mmaletsatsipro.co.za/
This episode is brought to you by the Civic Innovation Research Initiative, a group of scholar-activists committed to social justice based at the International Institute of Social Studies, in The Hague, Netherlands. https://www.iss.nl/en/research/research-groups/civic-innovation