Event Dates – October 26-2025 Venue – Pear Theater, Mountain View, CA Performed by – Sruti Sarathy, Roopa Mahadevan, Erika Oba, Vishaal Sapuram, Rohan Krishnamurthy Devised and Directed by – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website “Let’s sing a tillana, let’s sing this sweet raga so that better times may flower from now, so that we can welcome justness and friendship.” Synopsis from Event website – Songs for Many Lives creates new Carnatic compositions inspired by stories of South Asian immigration to North America. These songs reflect not only the successes…
What’s Your Story, Telling Stories of the Desi Diaspora
Event Dates – May 03-2025 Venue – Hammer Theatre, San Jose State University Devised and Directed by – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Synopsis from SJSU.edu – What is home? Where is home? What are the stories of home? How do we carry our stories from home? What’s your story?: Telling Stories of the Desi Diaspora is a devised performance, crafted to examine the representation of the diasporic experience, particularly of the desi community, in order to document the evolution of the American landscape, bring to light stories that have…
The Yoga Play
Event Dates – March 21, 22, 23-2024 Venue – Hal Todd Theatre, San Jose State University Written by – Dipika Guha Directed by – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Synopsis – Supported by the College of Humanities & the Arts’ Artistic Excellence Programming Grant, The Yoga Play follows the character of Joan as she attempts to save an athleisure company on the brink of disaster. After doing damage control when the former CEO is accused of fat-shaming women, Joan discovers that there is more fire she has to fight to…
The Forgotten Empress
February 27-28, 2020 in San Jose Performance Center, San Jose, CA. April 20-21, 2018 in Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Narration Performed by Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh. Written and directed by award-winning playwright Matthew Spangler. Original live score by Musical Director Salar Nader. From the Facebook Event page (link) Video from Asia Society Texas Center (YouTube link) All Event photographs taken by Lynn Lane Combining South Asian classical dance, live music, multimedia, and theater, The Forgotten Empress is a dynamic dance drama based on the life…