Dance Mission Theater: Nava Dance Theater presents Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies
Nava Dance Theater presents
Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies
Friday, March 13 at 8pm
Dance Mission Theater, SF
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1979697591789
General admission: $40
Community access (limited amount!): $24
Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies is a bharatanatyam, experimental movement, and live music production that explores the history, labor, and lived experiences of women and immigrants in the US, and how these fractured experiences inform our identities now. The work shows that together we are stronger, inclusive of the nuances and contradictions that we all hold in our bodies. Initially inspired by the oral histories of Indian nurses who arrived as a result of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, choreographer Nadhi Thekkek and her collaborators find universality in the heavy and enduring work of immigrant women and the worlds they traverse between. Rogue Gestures is an ensemble work of 6 dancers with a live original score by Roopa Mahadevan, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, and others. Rogue Gestures is created and produced by Nava Dance Theatre.
Performed with live music.
Founded in 2012, Nava Dance Theatre is a dance company which uses bharatanatyam, experimental movement, and live music to navigate place, identity, and politics through the lens of lived experience. Led by Artistic Director, Nadhi Thekkek, Nava’s work delves into unheard refugee voices, the #MeToo movement, and other social issues. Through their programs, they make visible stories on the margins, connect contemporary histories to today, and create intersections of culturally specific art, diaspora, and storytelling that are as layered as collective experiences. Through new dance works, residency and commissioning programs, workshops, festivals, and cross-genre collaborations, Nava Dance Theatre examines the various ways that dance can support and reflect the communities we live in. Nava Dance Theatre is based in San Francisco, CA, unceded territories of the Ohlone people.