FROM A TIME WHEN SOCIETY WROTE HER DESTINY, COMES THE STORY OF WOMAN WHO LIVED WITH DIGNITY IN THE FACE OF PROFOUND TURBULENCE AND TRAGEDY.
Rani Chennamma of Kitturu was the widowed queen of a small principality in the South of India in the early 1800s.
An extraordinary woman for her times, she led one of the earliest of armed resistance against the rise of British colonial hegemony in India.
Her sheer grit to retain autonomy for her people notwithstanding, Rani Chennamma was ultimately captured by the British and died in captivity.
This solo production by Jyothsna Sainath (jyothsnasainath.com), is told in the language of Bharatanatyam, a classical dance genre from the South of India.
This work is a co-choreographed with Maya Kulkarni, pathbreaking choreographer, and master story-teller.
https://mayakulkarni.org/
It is constructed as an intimate, first person account of the turbulence and tragedy that marked Rani Chennamma’s life, one that was circumscribed by the messy and complex dilemmas of an era when society charted a certain path for women to tread, queens or otherwise.
Q & A at the end of the event.
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