Jul 27 2025 to Jul 27 2025 6 p.m.

Price: 350

Where

Courtyard Koota

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

Event Description

Red Dress Waali Ladki was last performed in 2020. We have recently revived it post the pandemic. Much has changed and also, nothing has changed.

The piece asserts that as women, we strongly experience the plight of other women. It attempts to locate this violence and fear in the body of the artist. It asks : Where does patriarchal penetration live in the body ? It invites the viewer to reflect on their own physical experience and body memory. It implores the men to respond to really "feel what we feel". Red Dress Waali Ladki depicts a world where horror and love coexist - sometimes in the same moment and in the same body. It is not just the most gruesome and public crimes that are qualified as violence. The subtle and daily situations within homes, marriages, offices, relationships and seemingly safe spaces are also heinous patriarchal penetrations.

The piece uses movement and text to reveal that the most personal act is shared and social. And the most public crime can become deeply personal and life changing.

About Diya Naidu:

Diya Naidu is a choreographer, performer, facilitator and arts organiser based in India. She is the founder of Citizens of Stage Co Lab. As a choreographer, her work has traversed into the area of gender and feminism, touch and intimacy and more recently longing and narratives of the secular in her country. She currently collaborates with artists all over India as well as in Switzerland and Africa. She sees the moving body as a key site for the integration of worlds and is a trained yoga teacher and animist practitioner.

Credits –

Created and Performed by Diya Naidu

Rehearsal Director - Priyabrata Panigrahi

Original Dramaturgy – Sharanya Ramprakash

Lighting and Management - Anand Samudre

About the Cartoon Natyam Performance Series

Cartoon Natyam is an initiative by Veena Basavrajaiah designed to create a space that addresses the issues of the art world. It started with an online forum where cartoons and illustrations are used to elicit discussions that are socially and politically impacting the artists and their practice. Taking this idea of dialogue between art, practice and audience further, Cartoon Natyam will be curating a series of live performances in collaboration with Courtyard Koota. The series will bring to the audience works of various artists who have been engaging with personal and political questions through their art.

Age 18+