Routing

ROUTING by SANCHITA SHARMA is a personal and communal journey that explores the themes of migration, borders, and belonging. Routing reflects on the fragmented experience of migration, especially focusing on feelings of loss, in order to create bridges with people who might have experienced loss of a community, been made to feel like an outsider, longing to be seen and to belong.

Sharma delves into her personal embodied experience of migration and the complex interplay between creating a network, developing heightened adaptability, and undergoing several acts of relocation. Combining improvisation and choreography with her collaborators Celeste Camfield and Aída Hernandez-Reyes, Sharma views the experience of migration as one connected to time—the discontinuity and rupture with a life that existed before and a new life that begins in diaspora:

“As an outsider, one mistake, one misstep, one act of non-compliance can throw my life upside-down. This work is a response to that fear as well as a need to prove that there are ways of building a world, a life, a community, a culture that needn’t be categorized (such as exotic, other, non-western).”

This project is a search for connection amongst labeling, profiling, and forced erasure of migrants in the US. It is an attempt to show how migrants embody the limits of translation between home and host cultures, a temporal rupture with their past, and a constant feeling of alienation from one’s lived experience.

Credits:

Choreography: Sanchita Sharma

Performers: Celeste Camfield, Aída Hernandez-Reyes, Sanchita Sharma Music: Jolly Roger Studio

Lighting Designer: Tory Borgstedte

Costumes: Kelsey Oliver

Videography: Celeste Camfield & Sanchita Sharma

Video Editing: Celeste Camfield

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LOCATION: ELECTRIC LODGE / KELMAN THEATER

This performance is part of the Daredevil Arts Festival, a multi-weekend performing arts festival co-presented by Electric Lodge and Pacific Resident Theatre, celebrating bold voices and multidisciplinary storytelling in the Venice community.

Choose from over 50 performances running July 11–19 (with an Opening Night Party on July 10). Tickets are $15 per show or $125 for an All-Access Pass. View the full lineup at daredevilarts.org/shows

Parking: Parking availability is fairly limited at Electric Lodge, so it is recommended to arrive at least 30 minutes early to find street parking in the neighborhood. Be mindful of local street signs and courteous to neighbors when parking.

Media Consent: Please note, by attending this event, you consent to being photographed and recorded. Photos and videos may be used for educational or promotional purposes for the artist, festival and theater organization's websites, social media pages, and other publications.