Friday, October 23, 2009
Indian dance 'Alekhya: Spinning Ink' get U.S. premiere at Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "The classical dance and music traditions of India will presented at the U.S. premiere of 'Alekhya: Spinning Ink' on Saturday night in Oakland."
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I absolutely love it when theatre from different countries is show cased in American theaters. Far too often we have a very narrow-minded view of what theater should be like, but different cultures have such different approaches to theater than we do in America. I look forward to seeing this show, hopefully it can inspire new concepts and structures to perform in our own theaters.
My friend went to India last year and on her trip she happened to see a show and a three hour long Bollywood movie. When she came back from her trip all she could do was rave a about India and all the things she saw there. Since then I've been interested in Indian culture and I think a lot of other people are too, for various reasons. I think its cool that a taste of Indian theater is being brought here. It should be very interesting.
I wish Americans could be exposed to live performances from different countries more often. Very often theatre that comes out of foreign countries takes such a different approach than theatre coming out of America. I want to learn as much as I can about all the different approaches towards theatre, and I think that seeing more live foreign theatre is a very important element to this goal.
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