Past Moments, Present Stories
My essay for barefoot philosophers is up on their newly launched website! You can read ‘Past Moments, Present Stories: History as Performance’ here. Continue reading Past Moments, Present Stories
Mehfil
Mehfil is a series of free, intimate performances that bring together kathak, its history, and my own history with the dance. Each Mehfil is an intimate performance that uses the North Indian dance form kathak and history to ask how the past and identity intersect. In this hour-long conversation, I explore how diasporic experiences can sit between worlds — of past and present, centres and margins, and home and … Continue reading Mehfil
“Encounter with a Great Grandfather” – Art India Magazine
You can read a PDF version of my review of Anuja Ghosalkar’s one-woman documentary theatre play, Lady Anandi here. The piece was published in Art India, vol. 21, issue 3 (Quarter 3: 2017). Continue reading “Encounter with a Great Grandfather” – Art India Magazine
The Rani of Sirmur
The Rani of Sirmur is a work-in-progress kathak piece that is a response to the colonial archive. Inspired by Gayatri Spivak’s essay of the same name, the piece explores absences in the archive through affect and narrative. The Rani of Sirmur has been performed at as part of the keynote performance at the New Directions in Active History Conference at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London … Continue reading The Rani of Sirmur
Staging Our Histories
Staging Our Histories (SOH) was founded by Arpita Bajpeyi, Sinead Cox and Marie-Anne Gagnon in 2015 as a not-for-profit public history initiative that seeks to put diverse histories and voices in conversation with each other on the same stage, in front of a live audience. Co-directed by Arpita and Sinead, and supported by Logistics Coordinator Christina Parsons, SOH is a platform that aims to change our … Continue reading Staging Our Histories
