Please join us for a reception and interdisciplinary performance event with Bay Area artists Salma Arastu and Naina Shastri as they explore the intersections between the mystical poetry of Mevlana Rumi and Meera Bai, born hundreds of years apart into distinct spiritual traditions. For this performance the artists work across disciplines, combining poetry recitation, image and video projection, visual art, and interpretative performance of the South Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. Finding continuity through time and between Islam and Hinduism, the artists explore-as did Rumi and Meera Bai-the redemptive power of love.
In creating this work, Shastri-who comes from a traditional background in the classical dance form, Bharatanatyam, with strict guidelines on how a repertoire should be presented-is shifting the terrain of her practice. Traditional Bharatanatyam dance does not integrate the esoteric knowledge of Sufism, unlike Kathak, a classical dance form from Northern India which has had a very strong Muslim influence.
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project also represents a departure for Salma Arastu, who typically works in two-dimensional media. The values of the work, however, are aligned for both artists, engaging the intersections and continuous threads between cultural and spiritual traditions. Arastu's love for Meera Bai led her to the poetry of Mevlana Rumi, manifest in a series of paintings and a small book drawing on selected verses by the Islamic mystic.
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In creating this work, Shastri-who comes from a traditional background in the classical dance form, Bharatanatyam, with strict guidelines on how a repertoire should be presented-is shifting the terrain of her practice. Traditional Bharatanatyam dance does not integrate the esoteric knowledge of Sufism, unlike Kathak, a classical dance form from Northern India which has had a very strong Muslim influence.
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project also represents a departure for Salma Arastu, who typically works in two-dimensional media. The values of the work, however, are aligned for both artists, engaging the intersections and continuous threads between cultural and spiritual traditions. Arastu's love for Meera Bai led her to the poetry of Mevlana Rumi, manifest in a series of paintings and a small book drawing on selected verses by the Islamic mystic.
Please join us for a reception and interdisciplinary performance event with Bay Area artists Salma Arastu and Naina Shastri as they explore the intersections between the mystical poetry of Mevlana Rumi and Meera Bai, born hundreds of years apart into distinct spiritual traditions. For this performance the artists work across disciplines, combining poetry recitation, image and video projection, visual art, and interpretative performance of the South Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. Finding continuity through time and between Islam and Hinduism, the artists explore-as did Rumi and Meera Bai-the redemptive power of love.
In creating this work, Shastri-who comes from a traditional background in the classical dance form, Bharatanatyam, with strict guidelines on how a repertoire should be presented-is shifting the terrain of her practice. Traditional Bharatanatyam dance does not integrate the esoteric knowledge of Sufism, unlike Kathak, a classical dance form from Northern India which has had a very strong Muslim influence.
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project also represents a departure for Salma Arastu, who typically works in two-dimensional media. The values of the work, however, are aligned for both artists, engaging the intersections and continuous threads between cultural and spiritual traditions. Arastu's love for Meera Bai led her to the poetry of Mevlana Rumi, manifest in a series of paintings and a small book drawing on selected verses by the Islamic mystic.
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In creating this work, Shastri-who comes from a traditional background in the classical dance form, Bharatanatyam, with strict guidelines on how a repertoire should be presented-is shifting the terrain of her practice. Traditional Bharatanatyam dance does not integrate the esoteric knowledge of Sufism, unlike Kathak, a classical dance form from Northern India which has had a very strong Muslim influence.
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project also represents a departure for Salma Arastu, who typically works in two-dimensional media. The values of the work, however, are aligned for both artists, engaging the intersections and continuous threads between cultural and spiritual traditions. Arastu's love for Meera Bai led her to the poetry of Mevlana Rumi, manifest in a series of paintings and a small book drawing on selected verses by the Islamic mystic.
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