Garba Dance Lessons w/ Anjali + Deepa Mehta’s Fire

Name: Garba Dance Lessons w/ Anjali + Deepa Mehta’s Fire
Start: 2024-11-02T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Tomorrow Theater

Schedule

Sat Nov 02 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Tomorrow Theater | Portland, OR

Join DJ Anjali to DANCE prior to a screening, curated by Anjali, of Deepa Mehta’s 1996 film Fire! Garba is a Gujarati folk dance that is popular during the autumnal holidays of Navratri & Diwali. Anjali will be teaching her Bollywood version of the ancient ring dance.
ON SCREEN: Fire
1996. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Runtime: 104 minutes. Rated PG-13.
Sita (Nandita Das) and Radha (Shabana Azmi) are two Indian women stuck in loveless marriages. While Sita is trapped in an arranged relationship with her cruel and unfaithful husband, Jatin (Jaaved Jaafei), Radha is married to his brother, Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a religious zealot who believes in suppressing desire. As the two women recognize their similar situations, they grow closer, and their relationship becomes far more involved than either of them could have anticipated.
ON STAGE: DJ Anjali
Anjali is a DJ, dancer, and artist. Her work is primarily concerned with creating a collective memory through songs, dance, and imagery while pushing forward a working class, immigrant feminist agenda on the dance floor. As a DJ and dance floor instigator, she has worked to promote the future and vintage sounds of the South Asian and Desi diaspora within the larger Global Bass movement. She moves between two styles of performance, from behind the decks as a DJ to the front of the stage as a Bhangra dancer, all the while exploring her own identity and using the dance floor as a place to build solidarity.