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...comically looked at the recurring theme in the aptly named “Loss of Innocence,” which was put on by the South Asian Women’s Collective and South Asian American Theatre in the Leverett Old Library Theatre this past weekend. Directed by Manisha Munshi ’06 and produced by Gayatri S. Datar ’07 and Tanuj D. Parikh ‘09, the show consisted of a group of monologues and dialogues exploring different topics ranging from death to sexuality. All proceeds went to the Edhi Foundation for Earthquake relief...
Luke, a demographer and sociologist, said she combined her expertise with that of Kyvan Munshi, an economist at Brown University...
Producer: Manisha Munshi...
...Munshi is one of the choreographers, and has a background of classical training in South Asian dance. Her piece, “Hindi Film Dance: A Bollywood Journey” is an example of the ten dance performances in the show, which cover a broad range of dances from South Asia (and the South Asian diaspora,) from the Punjabi Bhangra style, to Chutney-Soca, which reflects Indian immigration into the West Indies, to fusion between modern and traditional forms. This is the first year that Nepali dance is included under the Ghungroo umbrella, and producers are proud that the repertoire...
...dancers and performers are not of South Asian heritage at all. “One of the great things about Ghungroo is that no one has to audition, know how to dance, or be South Asian. People just show up, and more do every year,” Munshi said...