In this excerpt of "Carrie's Web," Carrie weaves a fashionable web of resistance. She stands up to human's fear of spiders and uses her charms to show how spiders are invaluable to humanity.
"Carrie's Web"
Created and performed by Shyamala Moorty
Music by Derrick Spiva Jr.
Direction by D'lo
Assistant Direction by Leilani Chan
Aerial coaching by Karyne and Sarah Steben
Performance made possible by TeAda Productions, the Arts Council of Long Beach…
In this excerpt of "Carrie's Web," Carrie weaves a fashionable web of resistance. She stands up to human's fear of spiders and uses her charms to show how spiders are invaluable to humanity.
"Carrie's Web"
Created and performed by Shyamala Moorty
Music by Derrick Spiva Jr.
Direction by D'lo
Assistant Direction by Leilani Chan
Aerial coaching by Karyne and Sarah Steben
Performance made possible by TeAda Productions, the Arts Council of Long Beach…
An ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) teenager visitis India for the first time and experiences cultural shock at the toilet situation. Meanwhile, an elderly cleaning woman sweeps up the teenager's mess while giving her own commentary about the the waste that Western tourists leave.
Potty Talk
Created and Performed by Shyamala Moorty
Directed by Leilani Chan
Carrie's Web
created and performed by Shyamala Moorty
direction: D'lo
dramaturgy: D'lo
dance rehearsal director: Cynthia Lee
director of photography: Sangita Shresthova
music: Derrick Spiva Jr.
made possible in part by TeAda Productions, the Long Beach Arts Council and the City of Long Beach
Inverted Bharata Natyam, rhythm, and voice create an emotional cacophony depicting the character of a young South Asian woman struggling to untangle herself from cultural and familial webs.
"Carrie's Web"
Creation and Performance: Shyamala Moorty
Direction: D'lo
Assistant Direction: Leilani Chan
Dance Direction: Cynthia Lee
Dramaturg: D'lo
Music: Derrick Spiva Jr.
Performance made possible by TeAda Productions, the Long Beach Arts Council and…
The predatory bald eagle, Emblem of the USA, soars into the boundless space of the future leaving a trail of carcasses behind.
Created and Performed by Shyamala Moorty
to Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix
choreography & performance: Shyamala Moorty
music: Jonathan Marmor
Dividing her body down the center, the dancer practices ballet on one side of her body and Bharatanatyam on the other. As the piece progresses, the forms become more and more mixed up, transforming the artificial border that she starts with and moving beyond the East/West dichotomy into a sometimes conflicting, sometimes integrated vision of Aardanariishwara.
This duet collides classical kathak with contact improvisation to depict a relationship so intimate that it’s not always clear where one person starts and the other ends. Negotiating kathak’s exacting rhythms, the piece shifts between sensual connectedness, weight-sharing, and rough-and-tumble humor.
Created in collaboration with Shyamala Moorty with original music by Paul Livingstone.
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