ANGGOTA 2: Re-Member is the latest performance by Lee Ren Xin, one of Malaysia's most exciting and thought-provoking dance artists. This new work arises from 2022's award-winning ANGGOTA and delves deeper into the questions and themes Ren Xin and collaborators have been exploring – this time with a focus on embodiment on a day-to-day level.
In ANGGOTA 2, Ren Xin works with 'voice' as a significant element – the voice from the voice box, as well as the voice of the body, including what this body feels, needs, desires – its agencies, and capacities to decide. This stems from Ren Xin’s personal question why, "as a body-oriented practitioner, my voice is the one part of my body that I could not use. That I felt furthest away from. That I could not feel. That felt so foreign to me." This inquiry zooms out to consider larger cultural values that are inherited and embodied via the functions of family, education, and dance education – all of which may have a role in shaping the body and silencing the voice.
Recognizing the tension of embodying this disconnectedness, dismemberedness, and the dismissed voices of the body, ANGGOTA 2 embarks on a journey to re-member – to put together once again – this body in present time and space.
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Photos by Prakash Daniel Photography.