Sri Lanka and Jamaica were both under colonial occupation for centuries, finally gaining independence from British rule, in 1948 and 1962, respectively. To this day, both countries retain legal systems, educational systems, class systems, moral codes and the Queen's English, left behind by their former rulers. As white minorities in colonial times made up the uppermost rung of the class system, the families that inherited their place still enjoy a particular access and whitened privilege. 

In "Porcelain White", Jamaica-born choreographer Zwoisy Mears-Clarke and Sri Lankan-born choreographer Venuri Perera choose their bodies as the personal sites from which they unravel the complications of being brown/black persons who embody an innately classist colonial inheritance as they pass through white-dominated and non-white-dominated spaces within Europe, the Americas and South and East Asia. Interrogating their proximities and their distances; the ways in which they are privileged and incommoded in the power structures of life and art, Venuri and Zwoisy probe their own positioning and complicity. "Porcelain White" is a work-in-progress. 

The production is by Zwoisy Mears-Clarke and Venuri Perera with the support of the Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut. 

Concept, Performance - Zwoisy Mears-Clarke and Venuri Perera 

Dramaturgy - Sunila Galappatti and Sara Mikolai 

Sound - Isuru Kumarasinghe 

Lights - Namal Jayasinghe 

Stage Production - Bandu Hewage