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Joti Singh: Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink

September 10, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Free
As the co-artistic director of Duniya Dance and Drum Company, San Francisco choreographer Joti Singh has forged a singularly powerful body of work combining Bhangra with West African rhythms. She continues to explore this dazzlingly fertile hybrid with Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink, a site-specific outdoor performance merging live Punjabi folk music, Bhangra dance and recitation. The guiding narrative delves into the little-known story of the San Francisco-founded Ghadar Party, a revolutionary group of political activists from India fighting for independence from the British Empire. More than history, it’s a family tale for Singh, whose great-grandfather was the Ghadar Party’s president in the early 20th century. Rooting the choreography in her Bhangra dance background, she incorporates her Guinean training to expand Duniya’s new diasporic language.
Ghadar Geet is co-commissioned by Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. This project is supported in part by awards from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Date:
September 10, 2022
Time:
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://www.duniyadance.com/ghadargeet

Venue

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
760 Howard Street
San Francisco, 94103 United States
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