Ankita Sharma: dhoka/Betrayal/

dhoka/Betrayal/ by Ankita Sharma Premiering at JACK in Brooklyn, NY May 15 at 7:30pm with a talkback hosted by Ishita Mili May 16 at 7:30pm May 17 at 3:00pm & 7:30pm The sacred energy of fire bubbles over in dhoka/Betrayal/, a destructive dance-theater duet which entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power with ethnonationalism. This fire is one that South-Asian artists and physical practitioners have harnessed since ancient times, acting as a reminder of one’s own power and as a tool of resistance. dhoka reclaims this heat to reimagine Kali’s mythology with the eroticism, androgyneity, gore, and epicness that often gets written out of post-colonial South-Asian art. With Kali’s ultimate power bathed in authoritarianism, dhoka traces the pathway from destruction to recreation using worship.

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