BREATHING TOGETHER is a new collaboration in partnership with Dancehouse and SEVENTH Gallery, bringing dance-art communities together to respond to choreographies of air. 

During a recent Room to Move residency at Dancehouse, Amaara Raheem invited collaborators to drift into the studio and make small punctures in the atmosphere. This allowed her to muse on aerial space, breath poetics, choreographing sound, and words that refuse to vanish such as Mr Garner's final words — "I can't breathe" — which became a rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter movement. 

The research and practice from this residency results in a public program and sound installation at SEVENTH Gallery — a one-off event that invites flows of air and people; moving with, or being moved by atmospheric things, listening with the whole body. Borrowing from contemporary opera, BREATHING TOGETHER is a Breath Cycle breathed/sung/spoken/danced in three movements, with a prelude and an overture.

Saturday 30 November
6:30pm and 8pm
SEVENTH Gallery
155 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

Duration: 60 mins
Tickets: $10 via TryBooking

Amaara Raheem was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Melbourne and lived fifteen years in London. Currently her work is created on the land of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation whose sovereignty was never ceded. Amaara's work crosses borders – cultural, disciplinary, spatial – and takes multiple forms including performance, video, installation, text and sound. She collaborates with other artists mainly in related fields of theatre, dance, art and design and sometimes in other disciplines such as, geography or science. Amaara has choreographed and performed for theatres, studios and art galleries since 2008, alone and in collaboration with others. Her work has been presented in festivals and venues in UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Choreographed by Amaara Raheem, with Susan Bamford Caleo, Theron Schmidt and Peter Trotman. Music by Jon Di Napoli. Sound engineering and dramaturgy by Roslyn Oades. This project is supported by City of Yarra.