Daak: Call to Action

World Premiere: June 12, 2005, The Southern Theater (Minneapolis, MN).

"Daak: Call to Action" is an artistic response to historic and continuing land rights violations happening across the world – from the Native communities here in Minnesota to "special economic zones" in West Bengal, India, to the maquiladoras of Tijuana, Mexico. Second in our trilogy on environmental justice, "Daak" works through vivid dance images to share stories of trauma in global communities of color and the resistance and conjuring of hope that rises from desperation and devastation. "Daak" ends with a metaphoric "call to action" for audiences to lend their energy to the struggles of many women of color around the world about land and environmental and socio-cultural breakdown.

Running Time: 80 minutes, without intermission

Concept & Choreography

Ananya Chatterjea

stage direction

Dora Arreola

scenography

Ta-coumba Aiken

Costume design

Rex Rajavairan

Poetry

Omise´eke Natasha Tinsley
Marcie Rendon

composition & musical arrangement

Shubha Mudgal
Aneesh Pradhan

visual design

Darren Johnson
Northern Dawn Media

lighting design

Pearl Rea

performers

Ananya Chatterjea
Chitra Vairavan
Hui Niu Wilcox
Stefania Strowder
Gina Kundan
Lela Pierce
Srija Chatterjea Sen
Sachiko Nishiuchi
Sherie Apungu
Omise´eke Natasha Tinsley
Takawi Peters
Jasmine Kar Tang
Simran Kundan
Arunima Shiney Ajay

(See “resources” below for full playbill)

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