They Dance in the Dark with RENU (Renu Hossain)
Join percussionist, tabla player, composer, producerand curator RENU (Renu Hossain) for a live performance of 'They Dance in the Dark', their critically acclaimed 2017 album. Co-facilitated by OSE Associate Jas Dhillon, who will be hosting Q&A with RENU after the performance.
Produced at RENU’s Holykuti Studios in London and Berlin, They Dance in the Dark features vocalists from Beirut, Ireland, Iraq, Pakistan, UK, Bangladesh etc. They Dance in the Dark has grown into an ever expanding set showcasing RENU’s latest Electronica creations.
When performed live, RENU uses visual projections to form a chamber that encases the unique, live percussive, and electronic sound; creating a world, a cocoon, a womb ready to envelope the audience into the world of RENU’s They Dance in the Dark.
Imagine a party, where Gary Numan is married to The Orb, who is slow dancing with Massive Attack, while Oum Kalthoum French kisses Prince and finally, Daphne Oram is mixing the drinks. THEY DANCE IN THE DARK largely references 80’s & 90’s electronic dance music. The height of hooky, dark electronic anthems with an underlying postcolonial narrative.
If you’re unable to attend after booking – we ask that you cancel your ticket and free up a space for another participant. If this event is fully booked and you would like to be placed on a waiting list, or you have any other queries, please contact george@openschooleast.org
About RENU (Renu Hossain)
RENU (Renu Hossain) is a London-born, Bengali heritage, Berlin, London-based interdisciplinary artist.
OSE Public Programme 2023-24
Events held as part of this year’s Associate-led Public Programme respond to questions explored in the Associate’s central curriculum project It’s My Life, Don’t You Forget, led by artist the vacuum cleaner, and guest project Circulating Energies led by artist Hugh Nicholson.
The programme explores the structures and spaces in which care is given; where many forms of creativity, community and collectivity are found. It asks if and where we feel safe? How can we be safe together? Weaving together a number of collective modes of thought and action, the programme explores production in these spaces, asking what strategies of resistance might also be cultivated? And what new forms and structures might be realised?
You can find more Public Programme events at: openschooleast.org/ose-public-programme-2024
