Cycle of Self-Silencing
Yashashree Chakole
- 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