Dec 04 2024 to Dec 04 2024 7:30 p.m.

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Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

About Abhinaya    

Keeping ease at the centre, the performance will freely flow between song, dance and comment. Borrowing from the traditions of amorous songs through which courtesans have conversed overtime through the subcontinent, Navtej and Bala will both immerse and comment upon the innate reciprocity between sound and body, song and dance. The song's words, tone and cadence prompting the dance; in turn, the sensorial availability, engagement and flourish of the body feeding the music!    Navtej Singh Johar is a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award-winning Bharatnatyam dancer and choreographer. He is also a queer activist who, along with five others, famously filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.     

About Navtej Johar    

Navtej Johar teaches at Ashoka University, Sonipat. He trained in Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra, a dance school run by Rukmini Arundale in Chennai, and with Leela Samson at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in New Delhi. He subsequently studied at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, and won several fellowships for his research over the years. Johar has collaborated with composers Stephen Rush, Shubha Mudgal and installation artist Sheba Chhachhi. He has also acted in Earth by Deepa Mehta and Khamosh Pani by Sabiha Sumar.