choreography: Cynthia Lee

music composition: David Cutler

dancer: Cynthia Lee

musicians: piano, bass, drumset, timekeeper

running time: 13 minutes

A collaboration with jazz/new music composer David Cutler.  Veering between in-your-face funk, explosive extremes, and poignant gestures, Cutler composes wildly new harmonies, melodies, and textures based on traditional kathak rhythms.  Meanwhile, Lee plays a dancing trickster who gleefully engages in cultural identity theft, shape-shifting between different gendered characters and movement vocabularies while staying impeccably in time.   Based on traditional kathak compositions learned from Anjani Ambegaokar and Bandana Sen.
 

Note: The work may be performed as an ensemble piece for one dancer and four musicians, a duet for dance and piano, or a dance solo with recorded music.