BOX (2009-2019)

Developed as a series of solos, duets and quintets, Box is an exploration of ‘in-your-face-offs’ on hybrid identities. Smudging the binaries between colored/white, marginal/mainstream, against a sonic backdrop of rhythmic syllables from Bharatanatyam dance.

Rhythmic syllable composition: Gurus K.P. Kittappa and K. Ganesan

Choreography: Hari Krishnan

Dancers: Gita Ganti (2019), Nalin Bisnath (2009-14), Paul Charbonneau (2014), Kalaisan Kalaichelvan (2019), Mickey Kieu (2019), Amira S. Leila (2019), Aditi Mahesh (2019), Harikishan Nair (2019), Julie Neuspiel (2009), Vinod Para (2018), Emily Watts (2010) and Luna Mac-Williams (2019)

Musicians: Hari Krishnan (vocals/cymbals), Ed Hanley (percussion) and Aaron Paige (percussion)

Music Composition (2019 version): Niraj Chag

Lighting Design: Jack Carr (2019), Shane Mongar (2009) and Arun Srinivasan (2010, 2013)

Costume Design: Rex (Rajavairan Rajendran)

Premiere: April 3-5, 2009 at Joyce SoHo, New York City, USA

Other iterations of Box were also performed from March 18-20, 2010 as part of inDANCE’s 10th Anniversary at the Fleck Dance Theater (Toronto, Canada); on March 14, 2014 as part of Kalanidhi’s International Dance Festival at the Fleck Dance Theater (Toronto, Canada), on June 22, 2018 as part of Inside/Out Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, USA); on March 15, 2019 as part of the Myseum Intersections Festival at Dancemakers Theatre (Toronto, Canada); and from April 26-27, 2019 at Wesleyan University’s CFA Theater (Middletown, CT, USA)