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Title: EnGendered Festival
Post by: Natasha on April 07, 2008, 01:35:56 AM
EnGendered is a festival that brings together performance, dance,
theater, film and the visual arts to explore the complex realities of
gender and sexuality in modern South Asia. The festival features a
wide array of artists, academicians and activists who span the words
of South Asian popular culture as well as classical and folk arts.
Featured in the festival are 10 male classical temple dance artists
from Orissa, contemporary and feminist dance theater work by the likes
of Aditi Mangaldas, Aparna Sindhoor and Parul Shah, transgender and
queer classical performances, indigenous folk art from India such as
Mithila Paintings and panel discussions by academics and filmmakers
such as Shohini Ghosh. Urvashi Vaid, Reema Katgi, Bharati Mukherjee,
and Dr. Alka Pande among others.

Contact:

Lincoln Center for the Perforimnig Arts
New York, NY
Tel: 917 582 47 30


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