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The Artta
ARRANGE THAT MARRIAGE
Throw in a couple of hysterical parents and some confused young ones… add a ‘liberal’ helping of emotional blackmail and some good old fashioned cultural pressure… allow to simmer .. then sprinkle with music and dance from the Bollywood, Nashville and R&B genres… What do
THE MAHARAJAH & KOHINOOR
A most illustrious episode of British colonial history... Before it became part of the Crown Jewels, the Kohinoor diamond had many keepers, many Kings and many Emperors but there was one who was very special... The young
Maharajah, Duleep Singh of Punjab, India. Separated from
SLUT
A Kathak dance-theatre piece exploring issues of sexual grooming across culture and race while challenging labels given to women who do not conform to expectation. Slut is an ongoing development of kathak’s ang abhinaya by Amina Khayyam in which she steps up the collaboration with physical theatre/mime
ROUTES
a zerOclassikal commission : GIULIANO MODARELLI The versatile guitarist, Giuliano Modarelli uses the notion of the drone to incorporate sounds of dub and spiritual jazz to Indian Classical music, without changing the repertoire but manipulating sounds to create a new timbre to the music.
AGENT
In a makeshift shelter under a concrete motorway bridge – KAM brings medicine to JORRA who huddles up from the cold - feverish and shivering. They live there amongst a colony of other migrant men who have illegal status in the UK. Jorra is worried