Abhinaya Dance with InSyncKathak Dances

A classical Indian dance double bill featuring two of the Bay Area's leading companies.

Abhinaya Dance Company presents Unbound by Rasika Kumar. Unbound is a solo Bharatanatyam production that takes an audience on an intimate journey revealing how women navigate their lives. The piece shows how women endure a thousand subtle cuts that force them to shrink and occupy less space in the world. Rasika’s storytelling draws on traditional narrative frameworks where the main character the nayika pleads with the Goddess desperately seeking a new role model for the modern-day woman.

InSyncKathak presents Prakriti an ode to Mother Nature. It is a story about the precarious relationship between a nurturing yet authoritative mother and her intelligent yet most errant children! We humans irrespective of our geography and politics must embrace responsible sustainable actions to preserve our planet for future generations else face the life-altering wrath of nature’s fury. Creation coexistence change and resilience are threads woven into the beautiful tapestry of life. Drawing upon myriad personal experiences like wildfires earthquakes and droughts in California this relentless human spirit and its tryst with Mother Nature is presented through Indian classical Kathak dance.

Host or Publisher San Francisco International Arts Festival