Archive For The “Neo Natak #ne0natak” Category
View this post on Instagram Look behind you and keep that paw and tail prepared even as you move forward. In a world rooted in true community accountability and trust building, apologies might be enough (because you know your community watching you). But in this world nothing short of restitution really counts. Make your words…
View this post on Instagram He asked me to dance while he sang ????baúl song about searching for the wild in oneself and asking the community to keep an eye out for a wild one who hasn't arrived yet. I say, hey! we arrived together 🙂 sometimes it takes a few decades ???? #spittingimage #schoolrecital…
Almost precisely a year ago I have written a manifesto to center a perspective many of us living as settlers on stolen land do not need to consider but one that is crucial for the liberation we seek The manifesto is about 12 lines that were the gist of learnings that helped me make a…
Stills from bare necessities video art ? that accompanied song n dance routine These are the images that shape what turns us on and more importantly justify the violence against people made out to be perpetrators protecting the people extracting land and labor through violence. We need to understand this and extract it from inside…
[Hook 1] What are the bare necessities The baseline bare necessities Must we forget our worries and our strife I mean the bare necessities our Empire’s pornography Declaring false necessities the life [Verse 1] Take a look at mowgli… or any “tri/bal” child (don’t) Nobly savage… utterly wild Their bareness’ to be tamed… Beware They’re…
Video Player 00:00 01:00 Here she is a maestro but becoming exhausted and frustrated that despite her skills she cannot get away. Her anguish and ability to show emotion makes her more coveted more prized as a performer. It’s a face off a soft challenge but not much of one because she is alone isolated…
[Partial Script below] Spoken>>> I wake up moth eaten Brain in fog and holey Words blot in my mouth Moths biting mind Moths biting brain Moths biting Heart Heart as cloth Inanimate Made to feel inanimate Made to believe Moths Designed to do what they do Made to be natural Is this natural to bite…
View this post on Instagram #ode to #barasinghadeer #goldendeer #swampdeer deer with the most majestic antlers extinct in Bengal region due to kings hunts Rooting into acknowledging empire in me so I don't appropriate indigenous animism #firstpass on the land of the Pipl peoples #lagodecoatepeque Music by @tapewallah #mappingvoicetosarangi Documentation by @zxipex Poem Flash of…
A Reflection by Pampi, Founder + Artistic Director Took me three decades to recognize that in my dance work, I basically iterate the natok, a community dance musical theater tradition – possibly millenia old with roots in indigenous practice – of the Bengal region but with variations of form all over South Asia The contemporary…