Farmors dans
av Rani Nair







SWE

Ett av mina vackraste dansminnen är när jag dansar med min farmor under firandet av Onam i Kerala, Indien för nästan femton år sen. Min farmor fyllde samtidigt 90 år. Och det var första gången jag var med och firar denna högtid. Onam infaller lite olika i förhållande till vår kalender. Den bestäms enligt malayalam kalendern som i sin tur följer rörelserna i himlen, månen och stjärnornas förhållanden. Men högtiden infaller alltid i slutet av regnperioden, så allt är grönt, frodigt och solen har inte hunnit göra det brännande hett. Klimatet bjuder in till festligheter. Detta var första gången som alla min pappas syskon var samlade samtidigt som jag var där. Alla hade klätt sej fina. Vi hade traditionsenligt hängt upp en gunga mellan kokospalmerna. Vi turades om att gunga varandra däri. Musiken spelade från en skraltig högtalare. Plötsligt reser sej farmor och börjar dansa - och jag minns att alla försöker få stunden att vara så länge som möjligt...

ENG

One of my most beautiful dance memories is when I danced with my grandmother during the celebration of Onam in Kerala, India almost fifteen years ago. My grandmother turned 90 at the same time and it was the first time I was there to celebrate this holiday.

Onam is celebrated at different timings every year, in relation to the western calendar. It is determined according to the Malayalam calendar which follows the astronomical and astrological positions of the moon and stars. However, the holiday always falls towards the end of the monsoon season, so everything is a lush green, and the sun has not had time to make its scorching presence felt.  Thus creating an inviting atmosphere for the festivities. There were marigolds hung everywhere and the smell of jasmine was in the air.

This was the first time all of my dad’s siblings were at the same place at the same time! Everyone had dressed in festive clothing, beautiful white saris with gold borders and crisp white mundus. According to tradition, there hung a swing between the coconut trees. We took turns rocking each other in it. Festive Malayalam songs played from a loud speaker. Suddenly, grandma gets up and starts dancing – and I remember everyone trying to make that special moment last as long as possible...


Tack till: min pappa, amumma, Konstgruppen Ful, Kubkub, Gisle, Lea, Mira, Mrinalini Dsouza, Sandhya, Kavitha, Mala and all of Sri Sailam family.



Welcome to
Korrespondens /
Finding sisterhood / Online Space


Finding Sisterhood* is a decolonising and queer mapping of contemporary dance and performance. This mapping departs from a need to mobilise a movement and name aesthetic movements that are vibrating and vital to contemporary dance and performance while at the same time being marginalised in its history and archives. Finding Sisterhood is one of many sisterly acts where space and platforms are shaped to present and create collective languages for artists who instead of discussing whiteness, cis and hetero norms are in conversation with their own communities.

*In this project, we use the term sisterhood to describe a non-hierarchical act of solidarity. All our siblings are welcome!

Artistic Leaders: Nasim Aghili and Rani Nair (in collaboration with Malin Holgersson)
Graphic design: Hanne Lindberg
Web design/developmen: Lilit Asiryan
Web design/developmen: Lilit Asiryan
Web design/ develpoment: Lilit Asiryan
Illustration: Shabnam Faraee
Producer: Johanna Gustafsson Korrespondens / Finding Sisterhood / Online Space is a collaboration between Finding Sisterhood and the duo aghili/karlsson        https://fulkonst.se/Finding-Sisterhood

Finding Sisterhood is a project by the Art Group Ful and Rani Nair production and is made in collaboration with MDT, Stockholm, and with support from The Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International dance program, Lund’s municipality, and Stenkrossen’s maxistöd.



Welcome to Korrespondens / Finding sisterhood / Online Space

Finding Sisterhood* is a decolonising and queer mapping of contemporary dance and performance. This mapping departs from a need to mobilise a movement and name aesthetic movements that are vibrating and vital to contemporary dance and performance while at the same time being marginalised in its history and archives. Finding Sisterhood is one of many sisterly acts where space and platforms are shaped to present and create collective languages for artists who instead of discussing whiteness, cis and hetero norms are in conversation with their own communities.

*In this project, we use the term sisterhood to describe a non-hierarchical act of solidarity. All our siblings are welcome!

Artistic Leaders: Nasim Aghili and Rani Nair (in collaboration with Malin Holgersson)
Graphic design: Hanne Lindberg
Web design/development: Lilit Asiryan
Illustration: Shabnam Faraee
Producer: Johanna Gustafsson
Korrespondens / Finding Sisterhood / Online Space is a collaboration between Finding Sisterhood and the duo aghili/karlsson       
https://fulkonst.se/Finding-Sisterhood

Finding Sisterhood is a project by the Art Group Ful and Rani Nair Productions and is made in collaboration with MDT, Stockholm, and with support from The Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International dance program, Lund’s municipality, and Stenkrossen’s maxistöd.