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Bent Bollywood

January 25, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - February 3, 2018 @ 8:30 pm AEDT

Karma Dance makes its 2018 Midumma Festival debut with their original production, Bent Bollywood, an eclectic and libidinous dance show that combines the technical rigour of classical Indian dance with the camp theatrics of Bollywood.

Featuring Karma Dance Co-Artistic Directors, Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson, Bent Bollywood showcases everything that is both weird and wonderful about queer performance art.

Witness the treacherous imagination of the diaspora, the postcolonial rage of the subaltern, and the exuberant lust of the queers who would have written a much better “Kama Sutra” if only they’d been asked.

Govind Pillai is one of only a few professional male practioners of Bharatanatyam, a genre of Indian classical dance expressing Hindu religious ideas and spritual themes traditionally performed only by women.

Raina Peterson is a professional Australian practioner of Mohiniyattam, an Indian dance style that evokes a mythical enchantress of the Hindu god Vishnu who helps good prevail over evil by deploying her femine powers.

Melbourne-based Karma Dance is a classical and contemporary dance company and teaching academy whose productions have sold out at festivals and on stages in Australia and around the world.

Get bent with these Bollywood “babes” in their moving invocation of diaspora, gender and transgression.

Midsumma Festival is Victoria’s premiere queer arts & cultural festival for and by the LGBTQIA+ communities. ###

DATE 25th Jan – 3rd Feb 2018

TIME: 7:30pm to 8:30pm (60 min)

PRICE: Full ($30)     Group ($20) min 6     Concession ($22)

Details

Start:
January 25, 2018 @ 7:30 pm AEDT
End:
February 3, 2018 @ 8:30 pm AEDT
Website:
http://bent.karmadance.org/

Venue

Brunswick Mechanics Institute
270 Sydney Rd, Brunswick
Melbourne,Victoria3056Australia
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