When Eyes Speak, San Francisco's first South Asian Choreography Festival, presents its fourth season, presenting a Radical History Walking Tour in the Mission District and the performance of a World Premiere work by Choreographer Joti Singh, entitled "Ghadar Geet," at Dance Mission Theater. This year's theme, "Space, Place, and Ancestry," pays homage to the vastness of the term choreography within the South Asian diaspora.
The Radical History Walking Tour of the Mission helps locate Singh's performance by traversing audiences through the spaces we have and continue to occupy, identifying the deep, radical, and sometimes painful histories of South Asians in San Francisco. The tour is led by Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee who are renowned for their venture of a similar name in Berkeley. Following the tour, Duniya Dance and Drum performs "Ghadar Geet" created by Singh, who undertakes the personal journey of tracing her great grandfather's own radical South Asian history here in the Bay Area as part of the Ghadar party, which opposed the British occupation of India.
Performances are Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13 at 8pm and Sunday, May 24 at 4pm. The 90-minute Radical History Walking Tour is at 5:30pm May 13, and at 2pm on May 14.
In the early 1900s, Singh's great-grandfather, Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, lived in San Francisco and was the president of the Ghadar Party, a political party fighting for the independence of India from the British, through militancy (blood) and revolutionary literature (ink)."Several of the songs (geet) in this piece are originally poems written by Singh's great-grandfather in 1915 which were distributed in Ghadar publications throughout the world," explains Festival Director Preethi Ramaprasad. "The performance explores the Ghadar party's desire to restructure society, not only overthrowing the British, but creating a new economic equality as well."
$18-$50.
Presented by When Eyes Speak: South Asian Choreography Festival.
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The Radical History Walking Tour of the Mission helps locate Singh's performance by traversing audiences through the spaces we have and continue to occupy, identifying the deep, radical, and sometimes painful histories of South Asians in San Francisco. The tour is led by Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee who are renowned for their venture of a similar name in Berkeley. Following the tour, Duniya Dance and Drum performs "Ghadar Geet" created by Singh, who undertakes the personal journey of tracing her great grandfather's own radical South Asian history here in the Bay Area as part of the Ghadar party, which opposed the British occupation of India.
Performances are Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13 at 8pm and Sunday, May 24 at 4pm. The 90-minute Radical History Walking Tour is at 5:30pm May 13, and at 2pm on May 14.
In the early 1900s, Singh's great-grandfather, Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, lived in San Francisco and was the president of the Ghadar Party, a political party fighting for the independence of India from the British, through militancy (blood) and revolutionary literature (ink)."Several of the songs (geet) in this piece are originally poems written by Singh's great-grandfather in 1915 which were distributed in Ghadar publications throughout the world," explains Festival Director Preethi Ramaprasad. "The performance explores the Ghadar party's desire to restructure society, not only overthrowing the British, but creating a new economic equality as well."
$18-$50.
Presented by When Eyes Speak: South Asian Choreography Festival.
When Eyes Speak, San Francisco's first South Asian Choreography Festival, presents its fourth season, presenting a Radical History Walking Tour in the Mission District and the performance of a World Premiere work by Choreographer Joti Singh, entitled "Ghadar Geet," at Dance Mission Theater. This year's theme, "Space, Place, and Ancestry," pays homage to the vastness of the term choreography within the South Asian diaspora.
The Radical History Walking Tour of the Mission helps locate Singh's performance by traversing audiences through the spaces we have and continue to occupy, identifying the deep, radical, and sometimes painful histories of South Asians in San Francisco. The tour is led by Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee who are renowned for their venture of a similar name in Berkeley. Following the tour, Duniya Dance and Drum performs "Ghadar Geet" created by Singh, who undertakes the personal journey of tracing her great grandfather's own radical South Asian history here in the Bay Area as part of the Ghadar party, which opposed the British occupation of India.
Performances are Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13 at 8pm and Sunday, May 24 at 4pm. The 90-minute Radical History Walking Tour is at 5:30pm May 13, and at 2pm on May 14.
In the early 1900s, Singh's great-grandfather, Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, lived in San Francisco and was the president of the Ghadar Party, a political party fighting for the independence of India from the British, through militancy (blood) and revolutionary literature (ink)."Several of the songs (geet) in this piece are originally poems written by Singh's great-grandfather in 1915 which were distributed in Ghadar publications throughout the world," explains Festival Director Preethi Ramaprasad. "The performance explores the Ghadar party's desire to restructure society, not only overthrowing the British, but creating a new economic equality as well."
$18-$50.
Presented by When Eyes Speak: South Asian Choreography Festival.
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The Radical History Walking Tour of the Mission helps locate Singh's performance by traversing audiences through the spaces we have and continue to occupy, identifying the deep, radical, and sometimes painful histories of South Asians in San Francisco. The tour is led by Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee who are renowned for their venture of a similar name in Berkeley. Following the tour, Duniya Dance and Drum performs "Ghadar Geet" created by Singh, who undertakes the personal journey of tracing her great grandfather's own radical South Asian history here in the Bay Area as part of the Ghadar party, which opposed the British occupation of India.
Performances are Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13 at 8pm and Sunday, May 24 at 4pm. The 90-minute Radical History Walking Tour is at 5:30pm May 13, and at 2pm on May 14.
In the early 1900s, Singh's great-grandfather, Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, lived in San Francisco and was the president of the Ghadar Party, a political party fighting for the independence of India from the British, through militancy (blood) and revolutionary literature (ink)."Several of the songs (geet) in this piece are originally poems written by Singh's great-grandfather in 1915 which were distributed in Ghadar publications throughout the world," explains Festival Director Preethi Ramaprasad. "The performance explores the Ghadar party's desire to restructure society, not only overthrowing the British, but creating a new economic equality as well."
$18-$50.
Presented by When Eyes Speak: South Asian Choreography Festival.
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