
Returning
"Visceral movement is the star of the show in Sonam Tshedzom Tingkhye’s Returning."
- SeattleDances



Premiered at On The Boards
NW New Works, 2025
Curated by Fox Whitney, Roya Amirsoleymani, Kemi Adeyemi
Returning, is a solo production that investigates the resilience, displacement, and personal + communal history of the Tibetan people through the lens of the diaspora. With the use of dance, voice, film, and heritage items, the piece untangles the adaptive nature of the Tibetan identity and explores how one preserves culture in a time where media saturation and trends attempt to homogenize us. Moving through past experience, present feelings, and hopes for the future, the work fantasizes the recovery and healing of homeland. It imagines the return to a free Tibet.










