Screening in Chennai of 'Naach' (The Dance)

[rohit...@aol.in]

Friends in Chennai, you are warmly invited to the screening of  'Naach' (The Dance) on Monday, July 16, 6pm at the Russian Centre of Science & Culture, 74 Kasturi Ranga Road, Alwarpet, Chennai.

I will be present to introduce the film and for post screening discussion.

The programme is part of the 5th Samsung Women's Film Festival organized annually in Chennai http://inkocentre.org/5thswiff/index.html

Cheers

Saba

Naach (The Dance) - Synopsis

 

The Sonpur cattle fair in rural Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance for an all male audience. A barbed wire fence separates the performers from the spectators.

 

Originally part of the nautanki, a popular folk theatre genre of north India, the dance of the female performer today has become a replay of Bombay films and music videos that span rural and metropolitan landscape. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a highly responsive all male audience.

 

What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the dance of the female performer?

 

 

Title: Naach (The Dance)

Duration: 84 Minutes

Year of Production: 2008

Director: Saba Dewan

Producer: Rahul Roy

Camera: Rahul Roy

Sound: Asheesh Pandya

Editor: Anupama Chandra

Contact: Aakar, A-19, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi 110049

 

 

Festivals :

 

• Pusan International  Film Festival, 2008
• Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2008.
• IAWRT Women Film Festival, New Delhi, 2009
• Nazariya Women’s Film Festival, Ahmedabad, 2009
• 14ª Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico, Rio de Janeiro, 2009
• Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2010
• Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2010
• Beeld voor Beeld Film Festival, Bagota, 2010
• Engendered Film Festival, New York, 2010
• Persistence Resistance Film Festival, New Delhi, 2010
• Sonapani Film Festival, 2012

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Saba Dewan
A-19, Gulmohar Park
New Delhi -110049
Tel: 00-91-11-26515161
Fax: 00-91-11-41640681
Email: saba...@gmail.com
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