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Ruhanie Perera

Ruhanie Perera is a performer, performance maker and lecturer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She works at the Department of English, University of Colombo, and is a founding member of the performance collective Floating Space Theatre Co. “Inscribing Her” (first performed at the International Art Critics’ Association Seminar in 2013) and “Somewhere Between Truth and its Telling” (first performed at Stranger Than Fiction in London 2012) are two of her solo performances that reflect her preoccupation as a performer with the body, embodiment and the lived experience of women.
Theatre Consultant University of Colombo

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Storytelling communities; ethics and lived experiences in performance; memory and witnessing through performance.

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  • Narrating (in)security

Publications

  • Perera, Ruhanie, “Somewhere Between Truth and Its Telling: Memory and its materiality.” Choreographic Practices, no. 14 (Southern Oceanic Choreographic Practices, December 2023): 175–187.
  • Karunanayake, Dinithi and Ruhanie Perera, “Memory as Method, Translaboration as Practice: The Collaborative Translation Process of The A-Z of Conflict.” In Translaboration in Analog and Digital Practice: Labour, Power, Ethics, edited by Cornelia Zwischenberger and Alexa Alfer, 161–184. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2023.
  • Cheran, R., Dinithi Karunanayake, Sharmini Pereira, Ruhanie Perera, T. Shanaathanan and Geetha Sukumaran, eds, The A to Z of Conflict – an Artists’ Book Project. Colombo and New York: Raking Leaves, 2019
  • Perera, Ruhanie, “Shattering silence: An Examination of the Work of Sri Lankan Playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera, her place in and contribution to the English Theatre in Sri Lanka 2005-2008.” In Continuities and Departures: Essays on Postcolonial Sri Lankan Women’s Creative Writing in English, edited by Dinithi Karunanayake and Selvie Thiruchandran. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa, 2011.

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