{"id":18,"date":"2018-04-20T23:48:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T06:35:44","slug":"the-forgotten-empress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/2018\/04\/20\/the-forgotten-empress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Empress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>February 27-28, 2020 in San Jose Performance Center, San Jose, CA.<\/h4>\n<h4>April 20-21, 2018 in Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX.<\/h4>\n<p>Sukanya Chakrabarti, Narration<\/p>\n<p>Performed by Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh. Written and directed by award-winning playwright Matthew Spangler. Original live score by Musical Director Salar Nader.<\/p>\n<p>From the Facebook Event page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1578903295556778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Video from Asia Society Texas Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6fc_-CUj4Ak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fit\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/images\/banners\/banner-forgotten-empress.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Forgotten Empress\" \/><\/p>\n<hr id=\"system-readmore\" \/>\n<p>All Event photographs taken by Lynn Lane<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/forgotten-empress-SF-5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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The performance will explore her influence in 16th century Mughal India, and how she maintained power in a male-dominated empire, only to be almost forgotten in the latter years of her life and in death.<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, director Matthew Spangler, and musical director Salar Nader, along with their team of world-class musicians and actors, deliver the spectrum of emotions, relationships and occurrences surrounding this powerful woman.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-18 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/forgotten-empress-SF-6.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/forgotten-empress-SF-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-6.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sk-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,8,61,9,11,62,12,14,63,13],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perform","tag-classical-dance","tag-dance-drama","tag-farah-yasmeen-shaikh","tag-kathak","tag-live-music","tag-matthew-spangler","tag-multimedia","tag-noor-jahan","tag-salar-nader","tag-south-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}