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'A chance remark by an old friend in Sydney takes a woman back to her teenage years: living alone, by the sea in Chennai. She’s preparing for her debut dance recital, her Arangetram. She’s falling in love too! But when young love begins to unravel, the memories flooding back take on a power of their own…
'A breathtaking solo performance melding storytelling, live music and Bharatanatyam dance, made for the unique talents of Helpmann Award-winning Vaishnavi Suryaprakash (Counting and Cracking, Galileo, Sami in Paradise), Nayika is story as survival. It is dance as resistance. It is a new type of heroine: one we have yet to imagine.' (Production summary)
Production Details
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Presented by Belvoir Street Theatre. Performed at Upstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, New South Wales : 30 April - 19 May 2024.
Director: Nithya Nagarajan and Liv Satchell.
Cast: Vaishnavi Suryaprakash.
Musicians: Marco Cher-Gibard and Bhairavi Raman.
Sound Designer and Composer: Marco Cher-Gibard.
Set and Costume Designer: Keerthi Subramanyam.
Dramaturg: S. Shakthidharan.
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A Story of Trauma, Hope and Regaining Control, Nayika: A Dancing Girl Is Soul-stirring Dance Theatre
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 May 2024;
— Review of Nayika : A Dancing Girl 2024 single work drama'The complex and grappling issue of violence against women takes centre stage in the soul-stirring solo dance drama Nayika: A Dancing Girl.'
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A Story of Trauma, Hope and Regaining Control, Nayika: A Dancing Girl Is Soul-stirring Dance Theatre
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 May 2024;
— Review of Nayika : A Dancing Girl 2024 single work drama'The complex and grappling issue of violence against women takes centre stage in the soul-stirring solo dance drama Nayika: A Dancing Girl.'
