Premiere: Sunoh at the Miles Playhouse!

If you saw the show please leave feedback in the comments below!

New Video documentation is thanks to Carol McDowell and photos are thanks to Amish Desai


password "voice"

1. Preshow:
Sandra's shadow on back wall
bollywood clips on small scrim
Shy collecting cliches/stereotypes from audience about themselves and Cynthia putting them into live feed on big scrim.




2. Cyber Chat 1 on big scrim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSY5o4P_-vI&feature=player_embedded




3. Mixed Bag


Password: "Miles"


Mixed Bag from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.

4. Wall of cliches stay up as Cyn sadly cleans up the stage

5. Learning to Walk Like Radha



password "oh krishna"
footage from Feb Highways performance
6. cliche wall stays up on main screen with Sad courtesan on back wall

7. Cyber Chat 2 on small scrim
http://www.vimeo.com/21902064


Cyber Chat 2 from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.


8. Shy's letter

Password: "Miles"
http://www.vimeo.com/21967391


I see, but from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.


Intermission-----------------------


1. Sandra's Skype call on small scrim

password: interlude


Sunoh Interlude from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.


2. The Thorn the Leaf and the Butterfly
password "Uma"

3. Anj's skype/blog response
skype on little scrim
dance video on big scrim

4. Ranri
http://vimeo.com/21967464
password: "Miles"


Ranri from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.


5. Marks
http://www.vimeo.com/21968225
password: "Miles"

Marks, Miles from Shyamala Moorty on Vimeo.


BOW:


Our collaborators left to right: Ravi Deo, Cynthia Ling Lee, Shyamala Moorty, Loren Nerell, and Sangita Shresthova. Not pictured: Carole Kim, Mona Heinze, Kedar Lawrence and the rest of the Post Natyam Collective -Anjali Tata and Sandra Chatterjee!

Learning to Walk Like Radha

After developing the material during our Jan residency, I performed "Learning to Walk Like Radha" at Highways Performance Space on Feb 11-12 as part of my shared show with Prumsodun Ok, Retracing Histories, Redancing the Past.

Learning to Walk Like Radha

improvised choreography and performance: Cynthia Ling Lee

A talking dancer negotiates a really long piece of cloth while humorously commenting on the cultural collisions experienced as an American feminist attempting to learn kathak in Calcutta.  Learning to Walk Like Radha draws on Simone Forti’s improvisation structures and is lovingly dedicated to my kathak guru, Bandana Sen.

Here is video of the piece from both nights.  The password for both is "oh krishna".

Saturday:

Learning to Walk Like Radha (Sat) from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.

Friday:

Learning to Walk Like Radha (Fri) from Cynthia Ling Lee on Vimeo.