[Reader-list] Screening in Chennai of 'Naach' (The Dance)

[rohitrellan at 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 (TheDance) - Synopsis
 
The Sonpurcattle fair in rural Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girlstake to the stage and dance for an all male audience. A barbed wire fenceseparates the performers from the spectators.
 
Originally partof the nautanki, a popular folk theatre genre of north India, the dance of thefemale performer today has become a replay of Bombay films and music videosthat span rural and metropolitan landscape. It is a performance charged withsexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and evenabuse a highly responsive all male audience.
 
What meaningsrelated to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labourand popular culture can we read in the dance of the female performer?
 
 
Title:Naach (The Dance)
Duration:84 Minutes
Yearof 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 FilmFestival, Amsterdam, 2010
Beeld voor Beeld FilmFestival, 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: sabadewan at gmail.com 
          theothersong at gmail.com
       
  


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