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
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