Dancing Queerly

Introducing our third facilitator for the Q***r Beach Ball this Sunday!

Pampi will offer a community meditative dance song workshop and demo they call AbunDANCE: Meditative Dance Song.

Contribute to traditions of community chanting and moving to South Asian circular folk dance traditions as we q***r gender

AbunDANCE is designed to be a collective meditative dance song practice. AbunDANCE aspires to help us link our struggles for liberation within and across the world.

Come learn a practice for care and community in the face of the horrors of our world. AbunDANCE is rooted in anti-caste praxis. Buddha was anti-empire!

During our dance workshop we will work out and sing our own contribution to chanting culture and dance simultaneously with each other as a community, but also in solidarity with Palestinians, the people of Congo and Sudan, South Asian Adivasi Dalit and Bahujan peoples and minorities, and Black and brown people here in the US targeted by state violence.

Dance is inherently connected to our ability to show up to do liberatory work and stop violence. It brings us into our body and gives us the strength to hold ground.



Image Description

Pampi in red cotton long kurta with elephant print in black with satin black vest with silver pin dot embroidery over black fitted jeans with tuxedo detail made of tiny silver studs.

A 25+year newcomer-settler moving between lands stewarded by Wompanoag, Mattakeesett, Pennacook, Sokoki and Nipmuc peoples, Pampi is a darker-skinned nonbinary second-genx casteD-Bengali culture worker who plays at the intersection of healing and popular education: in community they develop community-centered art that releases creative potential and drives change-making. They lean on poetry, dance theater and gardening to help message the intersectional shifts in thinking we must embrace to center liberation. Current projects include Neighborhood Grow Plan, Diasporic Herbal Transmission, AbunDANCE: Meditative Dance Song, Movement into Meditation and We Are Forests.
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