SINHA DANSE
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Sinha Danse is a professional contemporary dance company based in Montreal and founded by Roger Sinha over 25 years ago. Creating, producing, and presenting contemporary dance are the center of the company’s mandates, choreographing with a level of excellence inspired by the Indian cultural heritage of its founder.
Promotion of contemporary dance is of major importance to Sinha Danse, as the richness that can be brought to this discipline using intercultural and multidisciplinary approaches. Music and new technologies are also greatly valued and present in many of its works.
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SHARED BREATH
SUMMARY - SHARED BREATH
2023 | 40 min. | 4 dancers
Shared Breath is a moving reminder of our essential need to touch. Originally inspired by experiences of the global pandemic, the piece explores the internal states resulting from the isolation and absence of and the resulting renewed ability to transcend solitude and reconnect in new and unexpected ways.
Four dancers wear square skirt-like structures strapped to their waists, symbolizing the socially defined mould of their personal space. The figures twirl tirelessly within their constructions, like modern-day whirling dervishes, all the while adding dynamic, fluid curves to the straight, rigid lines. Defying distance and the absence of touch, striving to make contact contact, the characters finally free themselves, all with a common breath.
Created by an extraordinary artistic team, Shared Breath features the bold choreographic language of Roger Sinha and the original music composed and performed by Of Sound, Mind and Body, featuring Tim
Brady on electric guitar, Helmut Lipsky on violin, and Shawn Mativetsky on Indian tabla and percussion.