Epic Women Creative Assignment 1

Choose a superheroine who is your Alter ego. (It should be your own twist/version of a known superheroine). Inspirations may come from but are not limited to Comic Books, Amar Chitra Katha Indian Comics, and/or cultural stereotypes

What is your alter ego’s super-power?

Create a signature movement that is specific to your Superheroine/Alter ego

Show us how your superheroine moves from the mundane world of mortals into the realm of superheroine ---you are encouraged to use text, movement, costume, props, and/or video.

Please upload your study with feedback questions onto the blog by Apr 12.  Feedback from everyone is due Apr 16.

(Un)Epic Wonder Women: our newest project!

We're excited to be launching our newest creative project/exploration!  We've been invited by Anita Ratnam, along with Ketu Katrak, to be part of their Epic Women conference in Chennai, India in December 2012, and will be using our long-distance collaborative process to develop material for the work.  Here's what we've got bubbling in our minds thus far:

(Un)Epic Wonder Women

Collaborating through digital media and across distance, the Post Natyam Collective uses live dance, spoken word, film and comic books to bring to life the magical-yet-hard-hitting worlds of un-epic wonder women.  Humor and parody come to bear as the artists challenge, re-write and perform notions of women that oscillate between the ordinary and mundane travails of contemporary women juggling home, family and career and the astounding and larger-than-life worlds of wonder women and super heroines embroiled in epic battles between good and evil. Flipping accepted narratives, the Collective challenges these binaries to find the wonder in the mundane and the ordinary in the epic.