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| BETROTHED |
| Indo-American Arts Council Inc. presents BETROTHED
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 14-May-2007
10:48:11 AM
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Written and Directed by Rachel Dickstein. Based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s "The Treatment of Bibi Haldar, Anton Chekhov’s "Betrothed," and S Ansky’s "The Dybbuk." Original score composed by Vijay Iyer
At: Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster Street (between Spring and Broome), NYC, 8pm
Post-performance discussion with Vijay Iyer, Rachel Dickstein, the cast and invited designers.
BETROTHED is a dance-infused, visually rich adaptation of three stories exploring the dreams, expectations and losses surrounding women’s relationship to marriage and independence. BETROTHED dramatizes a women’s search for identity through Eastern and Western ritual.
Using short fiction from Western, South Asian and South East Asian cultures, this new work explores how women from different backgrounds and eras forge their own coming of age by reinventing the rites of passage their communities embrace. Using the choreography and theatricality of wedding ceremonies, BETROTHED examines how ritual and human desire intersect, overlap and, at times, contradict one another. The stories selected track how women’s dreams of success are both empowered and challenged by cultural practices and accepted norms. Each of the uniquely drawn heroines from these stories forges her own path in relation to cultural traditions, offering contemporary audiences a complex prism through which to examine our own culture’s treatment of women and the roles they serve in society and ceremony. BETROTHED juxtaposes and blends Asian and Western theatrical forms, offering our audience complex stories told in uniquely expanded theatrical languages.
For information: IAAC, 146West 29th Street, Suite 7R3, NYC 10001
Phone: 212 594 3685 / Email: iaac@iaac.us
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Event Start Date : 15-May-2007
Event End Date : 0--0
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