Sun April 24, 2016 | 7:00PM at Symphony Space

- 2537 Broadway at 95th Street

 

Dancing The Gods: Night Two

 

Sanjukta Wagh

“Rage and Beyond: Irawati’s Gandhari”

 

Tickets start at $35

Performer, choreographer, teacher, and curator, Sanjukta Wagh has trained extensively under Rajashree Shirke in Kathak dance and Pandit Murli Manohar Shukla in Hindustani music. Her engagement with theatre (honed by playwright-director Chetan Datar), her work at the Laban Centre of Dance in London, her love of literature, and her deep unease with comfort zones have led to her interdisciplinary and exploratory mode of work.

This year’s Dancing the Gods festival features her most recent dance/theater work, Rage and Beyond: Irawati’s Gandhari. Inspired by Irawati Karve’s acclaimed text Yugant (which studies the characters of the epic Mahabharata) and interested in embodiment of the character Gandhari (an incarnation of the Goddess of Intelligence), the work won two National Theatre Awards at META (India) in 2015.

Sound design and live acoustic guitars: Hitesh Dhutia
Light design: Deepa Dharmadhikari.

Pre-show Lec-Dem with Festival co-curator Rajika Puri at 6pm

Chat & Chai meet and greet with the artists after the performance

Tickets for this event are also sold though the Symphony Space box office: www.symphonyspace.org