Aniconic with No Drama Drama Club
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📢 About the show
A divine marriage of Indian heritage architecture and digital dance.
Aniconic invites audiences into the celestial wedding of Shiva and Parvati, unfolding through a breathtaking convergence of live performance, architecture, music and virtual reality. Two dancers activate an ancient South Indian temple world as the space transforms around them—unravelling and reimagining the rituals, hierarchies and expectations that shape ideas of marriage across caste, gender, sexuality and faith. Part performance, part installation, part digital pilgrimage, Aniconic blurs the boundaries between body and building, ritual and technology, the sacred and the speculative.
Created by architect and choreographer Shinjita Roy, the work draws on years of research into dance, heritage architecture and emerging technologies, asking how cultural memory is both preserved and policed. Using motion capture and virtual reality, Aniconic repositions the temple not as a fixed monument, but as a living, contested space—where myth, movement and contemporary experience collide. Audiences are invited not only to witness architecture, but to inhabit its shifting meanings.
Learn more about the show on the Melbourne Fringe website.
ℹ️ Access
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you can no longer make the show (for whatever reason) please let us know and we'll see if we can find someone else to buy the ticket off you!
⏳ Schedule
4:00pm - Meet at Festival Hub: Meat Market
4:30pm - We'll catch the show together
5:00pm - We'll have our post show chat
6:00pm - all done!
💬 The Post-show Discussion
It’s your turn to run the post-show discussion! It’ll be more relaxed and free form as we’ll already know each other a bit better, and we may throw in a cheeky, optional, take home task to share with the group the following session too!
This event is hosted on the unceded land of the Kulin nations. We pay our respects to their elders past and present. If you’re a settler like us, you should be paying the rent.