Epistolary Ancestries is a corpus of ten open letters, each addressed to an adopted ancestor: a dancer (or two), a poet, a sculptor, a philosopher, a polymath, a mathematician, a designer, an engineer, a doctor. Articulating diverse orders of movement - from socio-political struggles, to technological turns and speculative leaps, from meandering memories, to subtler somatic shifts of healing and pilgrimage - the letters cumulatively essay a critical historiography of dance as a trifold practice of art, science and ritual. Un/delivered in various formats, as performances, installations, sculptures, screenings, readings and writings, these correspondences reimagine the role of dance in shaping our present and in mobilising a plurality of ancestral futures.

Supported by 
2024 Public Arts Trust of India & Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
2024 Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
2022 Akademie Schloss Solitude
2021 Akademie for Theatre and Digitality
2020 Serendipity Arts Foundation
2019 Robert Bosch Stiftung & Literarisches Colloqium Berlin
2017-19 Volkswagen Stiftung
2016-18 Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences
2016 Dance Nuclues Singapore