DOON
— Homecoming —
Here, every step is a prayer.
Every gesture, a return.
A short film by Russell Agro and Sarine Arslanian
A visceral, Armenian dance-based exploration of exile and homecoming
— an embodied remembering of loss, ancestral memory and the deep currents that move beneath the visible.
Through the ancient language of Armenian dance, Shakeh Major Tchilingirian invites us to listen with our hearts as she dances the stories never told, the grief too heavy for words, the love for a homeland many have never seen, yet have never forgotten, and the universal yearning to come home: to the body, to the self, to one another. Doon becomes a cinematic offering to the body’s knowing and the subtle spaces where transformation begins — a creative act of remembrance, resilience and return.
When we open ourselves to the dance, we open ourselves to transformation — from the inside out.
