Jamie Lee & Sooraj Subramaniam In collaboration with Echo Collective - Movement Research

This movement research investigates emotional landscapes shaped by experiences of displacement, shifting identities, and cultural transitions. Dancers Jamie Lee and Sooraj Subramaniam —who share Australian, Malaysian, and Asian heritage and are currently based in Belgium—will explore how personal memories and histories manifest somatically, and how movement can serve as a tool for processing and transforming these deeply held experiences.

Through a series of improvised physical tasks, Jamie and Sooraj use their parallel migratory journeys as a foundation for a deeply embodied exploration of memory, identity, and belonging. Their individual movement vocabularies periodically intertwine, generating a layered and dynamic dialogue between two lives shaped by shared histories and cultural intersections. Rejecting fixed genres and cultural stereotypes, the research embraces both traditional and contemporary compositional frameworks to create an honest, hybrid approach to movement. Through collaboration with Echo Collective, the Brussels-based violin duo Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, the research will be enriched by sonic textures that will enrich the emotional and physical textures being explored.

This residency marks a space for embodied inquiry—where memory meets motion, and where healing, connection, and new artistic expressions can emerge.