Cycle of Self-Silencing
Yashashree Chakole



Edited video - Full audio file available upon request Live multimedia performance presented at the Royal College of Art’s Information Experience Design (IED) Graduation Show from July 9–12, 2026

  • Lead Artist: Yashashree Rajendra Chakole
  • Collaborators: Ruby Cotton and Pankhuri Soni
  • Research Base: Anonymized interviews with ten young Indian women

A single Manjeera strike cuts through the dark. It will return, again and again, over the course of the performance as a kind of clock. Each time it sounds, something in the room tightens. This is the sonic spine of Cycle of Self-Silencing, a live multimedia performance that explores what happens when the space promised for healing becomes another way of keeping women in line?

cred. A Dance Mag Review, 2026


“The composition is a study in controlled instability. There is a limited palette used with precision, and the evolving dynamics sculpted through automation and spatial processing give the work a deeply introspective, almost psychological character”

R. Cotton