Sunken Works / Don't BITE
Ghaliah Conroy

During the upcoming edition of Nederlandse Dansdagen (4-10 October 2024), you will experience dance live on stages in Maastricht as well as online from Maastricht. The online stage will include three new Virtual Residencies, set up from a collaboration with Moving Futures, Korzo and DansBrabant. One of these Virtual Residencies is by Ghaliah Conroy, with whom DansBrabant has been collaborating for several years.

Ghaliah Conroy - Sunken Works / Don't BITE

Under the title Sunken Works Ghaliah Conroy is working on a series of works around the theme of the Human Zoo, the 'exotic' exhibitions that took place in Europe well into the 20th century, where people of colour were displayed behind a fence for public viewing. What effect does this history have on black women today? Sunken Works / Don't BITE is a cinematic exploration about looking and being looked at. How do you relate to a gaze that reduces you to a stereotype? And how do you reclaim your autonomy? Ghaliah is collaborating with audiovisual artist CJ Roxas for this research.

Practical:
The Virtual Residencies can be viewed online, on demand, from 4 October 11:00am.
The live presentation can be attended on 5 October, in the presence of the makers at the DSM Hall in Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht.
The online festival can be attended for free after registering.

Register via this link.