TAKE ME SOMEWHERE FESTIVAL: The Mongrel - Shawn Nayar
This performance work navigates the contradictory narratives that emerge when tracing Anglo-Indian and mixed race histories, placing physically intense choreography within the spectacle of a ritual to confront this conflicting tale of ancestry.
Time & Location
16 Oct 2025, 20:30 – 17 Oct 2025, 21:00
Strange Field, 105 French St, Glasgow G40 4EH, UK
About the event
The figure of the Mongrel emerges from British Imperial rule where the Empire, fearing the "mongrelization" of the white race, isolated Anglo-Indians from both British and Indian communities. These imperial orderings bind the rippling contours of the Mongrel’s body and carry mangled histories of exclusion and resistance.
This performance work navigates the contradictory narratives that emerge when tracing Anglo-Indian and mixed race histories, placing physically intense choreography within the spectacle of a ritual to confront this conflicting tale of ancestry. Live vocals entwine with abrasive choreographic arrangements, layering to erupt as violent cathartic releases - acts of radical self-care that seek to upturn and disrupt colonial legacies.
Tickets available here.
Access Notes
This performance offers creative Audio Description, via headsets.
A touch tour will take place 30 mins prior to the performance. Please book 'audio described ticket' and we will contact you to confirm.