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Lost on a Loom
2024, projection design [digital & analog video, photographs, found footage]
Lost on a Loom, an original dance-theater project by Mita Ghosal, examines lost south asian histories through the lens of Indian textiles and fabrics. known for their vibrant colors, alluring textures, and indigenous motifs symbolizing various aspects of culture, trade, religion and nature, these materials hold stories that have molded South Asia’s history as well as its ties to a colonial past.
weaving together a first-generation bengali protagonist with the stories of fabric from Bengal, the piece uses dance, storytelling, video imagery, familial narratives, and recollections of the past, to draw parallels to the movement of material, the movement(s) of people and economic and social disparities that continue to remain etched into the fabric of modern history.
projection design stills
credits
choreographer/writer/director/performer: Mita Ghosal
set/costume/prop construction : Jonathan Shapiro
seamstress: Laurie Ireland
lighting designer: Rianne Lindsey
sound designer: Pan-Pan Gou
photography: Chad Isaiah