Anushiye Yarnell

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Anushiye is an interdisciplinary dance maker and performer whose work is drawn from personal experience, past and  future  mythologies. Her works examine the intersection of dream and fantasy realms with ordinary life, seeking out connections between day-to-day experiences of the world and anthropological, philosophical, poetic and artistic  frameworks. 

“Dance is a way of treasuring that which is at once beautiful and difficult about life. For me dance is embedded within the ephemeral, fallible, sensory, cellular and temporal.

Through this terrain, each performance navigates its way towards a transformative destination. I dance through an assemblage of scores occupying the questions I have about life- including death, humanity including the animal and divine, love including the polarities of survival. Though personal experience is the source for these performances, they seek out the universal, the mutual, and the possibility for an imaginative experience, unique to each person within the audience. I strive to recreate each piece individually for each specific space; responding to the framing of each moment, how it colludes with my life at that time and the relational space into which I invite the audience.

In recent years my dance has been mobilised intimately, relatively and inter-sectionally to motherhood & childhood- utilising questions generated by female aspects and dimensions of Evolution as navigational ecologies for dance. I see my performance as a habitat to dissemble segregative forces in society and civilisation which play out in gender, class, race and age.

I seek to initiate collaborations based on exchangeable sovereignties- to be a force of anti segregation which does not compromise the distinct and vivifying voices of difference which resound within perceptual and experiential realms.”

A curiosity about the nature of Love as an orbital axis of Humanity has led Anushiye to curate as well as make work for three international performance Platforms- Animal Love, Heavenly Love and Future of Love Projects, bringing together artists from Japan, Peru,  Korea and the UK to to respond to the framing of Love as a question of human identity and self-understanding.