Imagining Pain: The Menster Saga with Sweta Ravisankar | Fearless Women by Samudra Dance Creations - (SF International Arts Festival)

In Imagining Pain, a woman's lifelong suffering, beginning in her teens, is depicted as she confronts disbelief and self-doubt amidst undiagnosed pain, embodied by the menstrual monster. Through Bharatanatyam and yoga-inspired movements, this dance drama illuminates the unseen struggles of women.

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Fearless Women, with Jyotsna Vaidee's "Samudra Dance Creations", is a celebration of women's literature. Innumerable women poets and writers of South Asian origin remain relatively unknown. This dance work explores the stories of India's early women writers and their work; work that interrogates injustice in raised voices, with searing questions of gender and faith. Its time that we listened for our sake!