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Chitresh Das premieres “Veil of Janki Bai”
Chitresh Das Dance today announced the premiere of the new work, Veil of Janki Bai, a Kathak dance-drama and multimedia performance about the reclaiming of a woman’s voice inspired by the life and legacy of one of North Indian classicali music’s earliest recorded female artists, Janki Bai, also known as Chhappan Chhuri (“one with fifty six gashes”). Veil of Janki Bai is a collaboration between Co-Artistic Directors Charlotte Moraga (choreography) and Alka Raghuram (dramaturgy, multimedia), with Saneyee Purandare Bhattacharjee as the featured vocalist and Sudhakar Vaidyanathan on tabla.
Dancer Pradhan of Chitresh Das Dance; a dancer looks directly at the camera, the only part of her body visible is her face as a large piece of cloth swirls around her as if she is spinning.
Photo by: Alka Raghuram
