Nün Gherāo: Surrounded by Salt

World Premiere: september 30, 2022, The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN).

TOURING: JACOB’S PILLOW, HENRY J. LEIR STAGE (BECKET, MA)

Nün Gherāo uses a 1978-79 massacre on the Marichjhapi Island in West Bengal, India, as its point of departure to explore betrayal, dispossession, and exile, and the desperate global resistance against great odds that fuels hope and survival. This work becomes activated through shared breath and rhythms, practices of mourning, overlapping time cycles, ritualized movement, dances of fire and of personal connection that tag different sites of memory through meditations on dancing in salt water, where one’s tears meet the rising and warming oceans of our world.

Running Time: 75 minutes, without intermission

Concept & Choreography

Ananya Chatterjea

STAGE DIRECTOR

Marcus Young

Scenic design

Chelsea

composer/sound designer/instrumentalist/vocalist

Spirit McIntyre

Lighting Design

Kevin A. Jones

costume design

Annie Cady

BOLS (SYLLABIC ACCOMPANIMENT) CREATED AND RECITED BY

Ananya Chatterjea

Film, media design

Darren Johnson

performers

Noelle Awadallah
Lizzette Chapa
Ananya Chatterjea
Alexis Araminta Reneé
Alexandra Eady
Kealoha Ferreira
Spirit McIntyre
Parisha Rajbhandari
Laichee Yang

(See “resources” below for full playbill)

Resources

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