Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies

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Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies is a bharatanatyam, experimental movement, and live music production that explores the history, labor and lived experiences of women and immigrants in the US, and how these fractured experiences inform our identities now. The work shows that together we are stronger, inclusive of the grief, joy, and strength that we all hold in our bodies.
Initially inspired by the oral histories of Indian nurses who arrived as a result of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, choreographer Nadhi Thekkek, and her collaborators find universality in the enduring work of immigrant women and the worlds they traverse between.
Rogue Gestures is an ensemble work of 6 dancers with a live original score by Roopa Mahadevan, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, and others. Rogue Gestures is created and produced by Nava Dance Theatre.
Founded in 2012, Nava Dance Theatre is a dance company which uses bharatanatyam, experimental movement, and live music to navigate place, identity, and politics through the lens of lived experience. Our work has delved into unheard refugee voices, the #metoo movement, and other social issues. Through our programs, we make visible stories on the margins, connect our contemporary histories to today, and create intersections of culturally specific art, diaspora, and storytelling that are as layered as our collective experiences. Through new dance works, residency and commissioning programs, workshops, festivals, and cross-genre collaborations, Nava Dance Theatre examines the various ways that dance can support and reflect the communities we live in. Nava Dance Theatre is based in San Francisco, CA, unceded territories of the Ohlone people.

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