Nayikas Dance
Theater will present EnGendered, a three-day
multidisciplinary arts festival bringing together fine arts
from South Asia, including dance, film, and visual
art, April 18-20 at Lincoln Center in New York City.
The festival will
feature contemporary and classical artists,
academicians, and activists from South Asia. It is slated to
feature more than 10 male classical temple dance
artists from Orissa as well as contemporary and
feminist dance theater work by Aditi Mangaldas, Aparna
Sindhoor, and Parul Shah. There will also be transgender
classical performances, indigenous folk art from India
such as Mithila paintings, and panel discussions by
academics and filmmakers such as Rituparno Ghosh,
Shohini Ghosh, Urvashi Vaid, Reema Kagti, Bharati Mukherjee,
and Alka Pande.
For more
information and a full schedule, visit Nayikas.org/Engendered.