EXCLUSIVE AFTER-PARTY DETAILS DURING BOTH PERFORMANCES

ICARUS
Deepak Unnikrishnan
(New York, NY)

There may be a proper way to explain how a city becomes a bully. The piece’s teller understands that there is little documentation. Proof is quiet. Therefore everything is made up, or remembered as gossiped, the images gradually engineered to be fabulistic in its portrayal of memory. Part of a set of shorts, Icarus shamelessly documents the Machiavellian tendencies of one particular city-street, desert-tinged, expat-ridden, as it feeds, grows, grooms, and becomes downright nonsensical in its snootish expectations of its paid expats. About memory as it was, as it used to be. And what it is, and how it has always been. Tiresome. Real.

DHARINI (Earth)
Anupama Pradhan
(Los Angeles, CA)
Runtime: 21 minutes

An inquisitive teenage girl with a love of science struggles to accept the sudden loss of her older brother in an accident. Taking place over the 16 days of the 2003 Columbia space shuttle mission, DHARINI delves into the world of this imaginative young woman whose personal tragedy seems somehow linked to the greater cosmos.
Confronting loss for the first time in her life, Dharini is consumed by questions of fate and chance, faith and reason. Though her journey seems set on a collision course, Dharini discovers the strength to overcome a numbing grief and begins to grasp the vastness and mystery of a universe that cannot fully be explained.

Shaheen Sheik and Band
(Los Angeles, CA)

International recording artist, songwriter and producer Shaheen has embarked on a path to even bigger stardom. On the heels of being honored as a Top 10 Finalist by Los Angeles Star 98.7FM radio station fans in the 2007 Unsigned Artist Search, Shaheen released her highly anticipated sophomore album REVOLUTION in May 2008. On Saturday night, hear the softer, acoustic side of Shaheen, featuring songs debuting at ArtWallah 2008. On Sunday, Shaheen will unleash her high octane dance tracks from REVOVLUTION with band mates, Michael Duffy (drums) and Vivi Rama (bass).
Discography: Live From Santosha (2003), In Your Love (2004), Rock Candy (2005), REVOLUTION (2008)

Oliver Rajamani and Ensemble
(Austin, TX)

Rajamani, breaks borders with his magic and spirit of Indian music, fire and passion of Gypsy music, history and beauty of Tamil Folk music, mysticism of ancient Tamil spiritual chants. - all having their roots in ancient India.
Rajamani will begin his set with, Yesu Bhajan, a Bhajan focused on Jesus who is considered one of the great avatars by yogis in India. This piece portrays the deep spiritual aspects of Yeshua in a yogic manner rather than a western religious manner. His second piece, Kalam Rumbe Marirechi (Times Have Changed) is a folk song sung in Tamil that speaks of his years growing up in India and its ever-changing times.

WAITING FOR RASIKA
Sandra Chatterjee

This contemporary padam is one act of "Echo- A Movement in Four Acts." Using one dancer's body and snap shots of the body, the piece reflects a (female) self as composition in body, time, place, and the tension between the self that is, and the subject that is seen.

THILLANA
Rangoli Dance Company
(Los Angles, CA)

Thillana, a Bharata Natyam pure dance performance features exciting foot work, joyful gestures, and sculpture-like images. Malathi Iyengar, in her signature choreography shapes movement created through layering, juxtaposing, and exploring spatial planes.
Choreography - Malathi Iyengar Music - T. V. Gopalakrishnan
Dancers: Lakshmi Iyengar & Shaheen Sheik

BAHU-BETI-BIWI (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife)
Sheetal Gandhi
(Los Angeles, CA)

The breadth of a woman’s experience, both of her outer world and her inner world are embedded within a genre of centuries-old songs that women sing in the desert regions of North India. In this solo dance-theater piece, Gandhi excavates various songs, exploring both the humor in tragedy and the tragedy in humor by embodying various female characters: her aunties, her mother, and herself, who all deal with restrictions in their lives.

KISMATE presents CLUB CHAOS Fri July 11th.
Meet other South Asians, play fun Ice Breakers and celebrate the night away.
$10 Pre-sale only. $15 At the Door
Purchase tickets at www.Kismate.com. 23 and over.