• zavé holds two golden fans and wears a beaded fringe mask

About

zavé martohardjono is a queer, non-binary trans, Indonesian-American artist born in Canada and living in Brooklyn. Working across performance, film, installation, and poetry, zavé uses dance and ritual as primary languages across projects that engage in anti-colonial storytelling. With dreams of a more just future, they make work that contends with the political histories our bodies carry and prompts inquiry into how healing and political education can de-condition the assimilated body and reconjure liberatory memory. They have made documentaries, experimental films, and video works that have shown in festivals and galleries in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, and Indonesia. zavé is a 2022 Bessie-nominated performer whose choreographic and live performances have been presented in theaters, museums, and galleries across the U.S. including in New York, Los Angeles, Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and in Skopje, North Macedonia.
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Land/Escapes Screening

September 12th, 7pm ET

Queer City Cinema Film Festival 20

Regina Public Library Film Theatre | 2311 12th Avenue – Lower Level, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Land/Escapes is screening at Queer City Cinema at the Regina Public Library Film Theatre in Regina, in Saskatchewan, Canada. This year’s festival addresses what it means to journey, how the word journey evokes romantic ideas with regard to time, existence and ‘being’ and journey as a framework to disseminate the work of Queer and QTBIPOC artists and their expressions and identities through film, live art and discussion.

Teaching a Summer Sunday Session at Peridance 

August 11th, 2:30-4:30pm
Peridance | 126 E 13th St, New York, NY 10003
You can sign up HERE 

Class Description: Dance, gesture, collective gathering, and non-verbal protest are embodied resiliency technologies used by activists demanding peace in an increasingly surveilled, carceral world. This class will introduce research from zavé martohardjono’s 2023 dance work “three finger salute” that combined dance improvisations using global activist gestures and political education on community resilience. Participants will work with gestures as collaborative scores, explore choreography’s powerful role in activism, and improvise as means to re/connect to the body, tap into resilience, and foster collectivity.

The Dance Union Podcast

I caught up with the illustrious Melanie Greene, co-founder of The Dance Union Podcast, to reflect on the culmination of a five-year performance series, TERRITORY, and talk about post-show life, lulls, and feels. Listen on SoundCloud, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play Music.

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