Copy of the Copy

current Project

A startling multi-sensory performance about weaving forgotten cultural threads that bind us and not separate us in these divided times.


Performer/choreographer/writer and co-Artistic Director of Sangam, Priya Srinivasan brings together an extraordinary team of artists, makers, and thinkers in conversation in this premiere presentation in 2025.

Created By
Priya Srinivasan

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.


Credits

Created By
Dr. Priya Srinivasan
Choreographer, Writer, Director & Performer
Dramaturge & Collaborator
Danielle Micich
Force Majeur
Visual Designers
Marty Shlansky
Staging and Lighting Design
Sean Healey
Audio-Visual Design
Composition & Sound Design
Luke Smiles
Sound Designer
Hari Sivanesan
Musical Director
Perfromers
Priya Srinivasan
Dancer, narrator
Hari Sivanesan
Veena, Vocals
Pirashanna Thevarajah
Percussion
Ranjitha Suresh
Vocals
Producers (Insite Arts)
Stella Webster
Jason Cross

Supporters

Contact

Producer
Stella Webster → Email