Suggested Event: Ananya Dance

Ananya Dance Theatre's
Pipaashaa: Extreme Thirst
Women of Substance Series and Ananya Dance Theatre
Thursday - Friday November 6-7, 2008 at 8PM

Pipaashaa, extreme thirst, is an artistic response to the steady
eradication and contamination of natural resources by aggressive
industrialization, from the point of view of some of the most
vulnerable populations in society. Created in collaboration with
leaders and scholars from the local environmental justice movement
and other internationally renowned artists, Pipaashaa is a story of
the desire to live amidst loss and struggle, and it articulates both
the aching thirst of struggling communities and the dream of an
alternative context, through the power of dance.

Pipaashaa is the first of a three-part series of new works
choreographed by ADT Artistic Director Ananya Chatterjea in response
to the steady drying up of the world's resources, specifically
through environmental damage, which heightens the vulnerable position
in which much of the world's women and children are forced to live.
It tells the stories of women and children who are forced to live in
the most difficult of circumstances-somehow pulling together an
existence by scavenging through dirt piles collecting recyclable
materials, for instance, in dense urban areas. More generally,
"Pipaashaa" explores ideas of loss and struggle, the desire to live,
and the relationship of these ideas to femininity.

When: Thursday - Friday November 6-7, 2008 at 8PM. (Post-show
Discussion Friday)
Where: The O'Shaughnessy, 2004 Randolph Ave, St Paul, Minnesota
Tickets: $25, student rate: $16
Call 651-690-6700 for Tickets or through www.ticketmaster.com

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