Kathak

5 Oct, 2009

Kathak Made a Man Out of Me…..And a Bird!

2009-10-05T00:46:53-07:00By |Categories: Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , |

Kathak made a man out of me....And a Bird! by Charlotte Moraga Gender-bending, gender-blending--This is ardhinariswara. It’s nothing new for a Kathak dancer. We have to explore the depths of extreme masculinity and extreme femininity as we portray different characters and characterization in stories. This kind of role playing requires an artist to get in touch with conflicting feelings and emotions within. What does it mean to be a man? a woman? As a woman, a mother, a grandmother, I

22 Oct, 2009

Performing Diaspora on the Airwaves!

2009-10-22T17:30:44-07:00By |Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Danica Sena Gakovich, Homepage Links, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

With Performing Diaspora fast-approaching, some of the artists took a break from the stage and headed over to KPFA's radio studios in Berkeley for a musical sneak-preview of their work on Stephen Kent's show, "Music of the World." In between tracks, our Executive Director Jessica Robinson Love joined them in the conversation about their performances November 5-8. If you missed the program live, give it a listen here!

16 Dec, 2009

Thanksgiving and Performing Diaspora …by Charlotte Moraga

2009-12-16T02:49:31-08:00By |Categories: Charlotte Moraga, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

November.  Thanksgiving.  Well, Performing Diaspora was a thanksgiving feast of a sort, for sure.  Dishes of quiet contemplative explosions and moments of mirth filled the platter,  like when Sri did her nonplussed "boob dance" and her sexy "butt dance."  With her back to the audience, she cocked her head as if to say, "I see you, watching me, watching you."  There was Devendra's utterly charming and engrossing nautanki play, Yannis' virtuosic and athletic dance -- one moment in particular took

28 Sep, 2010

Traditions Engaged

2010-09-28T10:22:44-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , |

When you're as far away from India as we are - here in the Bay Area - it's easy to mistakenly think of that distant land as one unified place where you find one unified culture. Of course, the truth is much more complicated. India occupies over a million square miles of the globe and is home to over a billion of the earth's inhabitants. Over such a vast territory with such a large population, unity becomes a very abstract

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