Copy of the Copy is an invitation to sit with the past, dance with discomfort, laugh, heal and reimagine new futures together.

Step into an unforgettable experience where dance, live music, digital soundscapes, visual art, comedy, and live cooking come together to tell stories that have long been silenced.

Copy of the Copy is a powerful dance-theatre work with stunning music created by award-winning artist Dr. Priya Srinivasan (Green Room Award: Breaking Ground, Creative Australia Asia Pacific Arts IMPACT Award, DSA Dance in the Public Sphere Award), in collaboration with Force Majeure’s Danielle Micich.

Blending dance, live and recorded sound, digital interactive projection, and participatory cooking, COPY invites audiences into an immersive journey where movement, music, storytelling, and food converge. More than a performance—this is a shared ritual of remembrance, resistance, and reimagining, held by Srinivasan’s exquisite storytelling.

Premiering at Dancehouse COPY is a response to the invisibility of Indian bodies in Western artistic canons and a quest to uncover the lost connections between pioneering women dancers across the USA, Europe, India, and Australia.

At its heart, COPY asks:
What does it mean to be an artist fractured by culture, geography, and memory?

What does it mean to be a copy of the copy such that the origins become obscured? 

In these divided times, how can we use humour and healing to move forward from these histories of entanglements to find the threads of truth telling that connect us?

This collaborative exchange brings together Indian, Sri Lankan, and Anglo-European artists to explore and celebrate the power of politics, poetics and cultural exchange.