Neel: Blutopias of Radical Dreaming
World Premiere: september 18, 2015, cowles center for dance (Minneapolis, MN).
TOURING: LINKS HALL (CHICAGO, IL).
Neel is about women’s dreams: dreams that unleash tremendous joy; shattered dreams; the imaginative labor that conjures up the most unlikely but exciting dream-visions; and dreams of wholeness and freedom that sound the call for revolution.
Running Time: 90 minutes, without intermission
Concept & Choreography
Ananya Chatterjea
directorial collaborator
Marcus Young
scenic and costume design
Annie Katsura Rollins
lighting design
Jesse Cogswell
sound and music
Mankwe Ndosi
Chastity Brown
Dr. Pooja Goswami Pavan
Michelle Kinney
Greg Schutte
Sharon Bridgforth
Excerpts from the Bengali poem Bidrohi (Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1921) read by Ananya Chatterjea and Prachee Mukherjee
score composition, arrangement, engineering
Greg Schutte
costum construction
Annie Cady
performers
Ananya Chatterjea
Chitra Vairavan
Renée Copeland
Hui Niu Wilcox
Lela Pierce
Katie Haynes
Alexandra Eady
Kealoha Ferreira
Magnolia Yang-Sao-Yia
Leila Awadallah
Prakshi Malik
Guest Artist
Shá Cage
