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The Artta
MEETING NAZRUL
Imagine meeting Kazi Nuzral Islam - the giant of Bengali literature and arts heralded as Bangladesh’s poet laureate, who from 1949 to his death in 1976 never spoke a word. What would you say to him? What would you like him to say… now? The
YERMA
“This isn’t dance narrative as we know it but something that burrows much deeper into the emotional roots of Lorca’s play, finding a poetry of its own” . The anguishing story of Yerma in Federico Garcia Lorca’s savage yet lyrical play about a woman who
STORYLAND FESTIVAL 13
Hounslow basked in stories with the first ever south Asian Storytelling Festival featuring traditional forms of Sutradharaa, Rajastahani and Bhavai to contemporary approaches such as rap, MC as well as the many diverse ways of telling stories e.g - Kathak. The Festival brought UK’s foremost
PERSEVERANCE
a zerOclassikal commission: Jonathan Mayer : “Many Indian music collaboration projects in the past have looked towards bridging cultural gaps while not focusing on development within the genre. We are looking at specific Indian classical elements to see how we can create new material”.
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