This was made as a part of "SUNOH! Tell me, Sister"
choreography and performance: Cynthia Ling Lee, Shyamala Moorty, and Anjali Tata
Music: Ravindra Deo and Loren Nerell
Multimedia: Carole Kim
Dramaturgy: Mona Heinz
Lighting design: Kedar Lawrence
special thanks to Hari Krishnan and TeAda Productions
This was made as a part of "SUNOH! Tell me, Sister"
choreography and performance: Cynthia Ling Lee, Shyamala Moorty, and Anjali Tata
Music: Ravindra Deo and Loren Nerell
Multimedia: Carole Kim
Dramaturgy: Mona Heinz
Lighting design: Kedar Lawrence
special thanks to Hari Krishnan and TeAda Productions
This dance for camera short was created to be edited into "Cyber Chat: A Manifesto" by members of the Post Natyam Collective. The written version of our manifesto may be read at: http://postnatyam.blogspot.com/2011/10/post-natyam-collective-manifesto.html
Here is the text:
Bite down hard into our naughty knotty histories
How nation-state clamped down
domesticating our bodies
Remember the unthinkable
the intimate erotic exchange between women
powerfully…
A tongue-in-cheek postmodern tribute to Trisha Brown’s Cube score as learned from Carol McDowell, [4] is an four-sided improvisational structure created in collaboration with the dancers. An absurdist, geometrical, and sonic abstraction, the piece has four sections that combine pre-composed material and improvisational openness to different degrees.
directed by: Cynthia Ling Lee
improvised performance, movement, and sound: Khanhsong Nguyen, Jazmyne…
The blues meet contact improvisation in a playful, rough-and-tumble work in which even the rudest interruption can’t keep the pianist from playing the blues.
created and performed by David Cutler and Cynthia Ling Lee
A sinuous, dream-like contemporary kathak work driven by unconventional cross-rhythms and haunting melodies. Material for dreaming in taal was developed at The Swarthmore Project, a residency program for choreographers and dancers sponsored by Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.
choreographed by Cynthia Ling Lee
performed by David Cutler and Cynthia Ling Lee
music by David Cutler based on a rhythmic composition by Lenny Seidman
slideshow photography: Andrei Andreev and Michael Burr
music: Ravindra Deo
SUNOH! Tell Me, Sister uses multimedia storytelling and contemporary Indian dance theater to bring to life women’s stories of being silenced, finding voice, and the importance of sisterly community. The evening-length performance draws on the fragmented histories of the dancer-courtesan of the Indian subcontinent, the stories of contemporary South Asian survivors of domestic…
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