The Parting
San Francisco – Jan 2018, San Jose – Mar 2018
Produced by: EnActe Arts and Noorani Dance
Presented by: Z-Space
In Collaboration with: 1947 Archive, India Currents
Funded in part by: Creative Work Fund, Zellerbach Hall, Dancers Group
Playwrights: Salil Singh and Anurag Wadehra
Produced by EnActe Arts and Noorani Dance, The Parting is an ambitious blend of theater, dance, music, and multimedia that will feature 18 dancers, 22 actors and a lone violinist—also the composer of the play’s original score—as a means to explore the stories of the survivors, the forgotten, and the dead who found themselves caught up in the tide and tumult of hope, panic and denial that occurred when Great Britain in what many see as a blithe last act of colonialism, decided to partition the country of India based on religious identities following the Indian Independence Act of 1947, thus setting in motion one of the greatest migratory upheavals of the twentieth century.
Director: Vinita Sud Belani and Farah Yasmeen Shaikh
Originally directed by: Salil Singh
Music Composer and Sound Designer: Raaginder Singh Momi
Visual Designer: David Murakami
Dramaturgs: Sukanya Chakrabarti and Anurag Wadehra
Project Manager and Stage Manager: Pratiksha Shah
Visual Dramaturg: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Production Manager and Technical Director: YuMee Jang
Lighting Designer: Beth Hersh
Set Construction: Nathanael Card, Julian Singh, Mark Nomura
Set Design: Salil Singh
Costume Designer: Sushma Kaul Roy, Alka Garg, Anjali Kushwaha
Assistant Costume Manager: Suruchi Chandorkar
Prop Master: Emilia Wysocka
Makeup and Hair: Jeshka Yurash
Makeup Assistants:Jeremy Corrales, Joshua Bade, Oasis Nguyen, Monique Russel
Graphic Designers: Vinita Sud Belani and YuMee Jang
Marketing: Erin Cizan and Alisha Yuhanna
Public Relations: Liam Passmore – Shave and a Haircut
Videography: Alan Cash
Photography: George Pigula and Regie Lantin
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Cast:
M. Zishan, Ravi Chopra, Varun Arvind, Chinmaya Vaidya, Aadi Thakur, Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, Sanjana Shukla, Richa Shukla, Chanpreet Singh, Suhail Kumar, Stefan Fisher, Maunic Dharia, Anna Chandra, Mohanna Rajagopal, Rinki Suri, Rohan Kumar, Prerana Vaidya, Aziza Noor Shaikh, Rohan Kumar, Shiven Arya, Yaduvir Singh, Maunic Dharia, Anna Chandra, Rinki Suri, Prerana Vaidya, Juhi Mohan, Rohan Kumar, Yaduvir Singh, Rinki Suri, Prerana Vaidya, Richa Shukla, Diya Dipak, Anika Warrier, Varun Arvind, Chinmaya Vaidya, M. Zishan, Chanpreet Singh, Suhail Kumar
Dancers:
Noorani Dance Company – Kathak
Choreographer – Farah Yasmeen Shaikh Esha Gupta, Vyomika Gupta, Veyna Karanth, Jasleen Pelia Lutzker, Maya Sachidanand, Sreoshi Sarkar, Aziza Noor Shaikh, Mira Kapoor Wadehra
Krithi Dance Creations – Bengali Folk
Mousumi Bose, Chandrayee Mukherjee
Abhinaya Dance Company – Bharatnatyam
Choreographer – Rasika Kumar Sushmita Bhat, Shreya Ganapathy, Abinaya Srikant
Nachde Kahaniyan – Punjabi Folk
Choreographer – Samreen Sandhu Mussarat Iqbal, Shreepal Shah
Violin: Raaginder Singh Momi
Flute: Praveen Prathapan
Tabla: Iman Hashimi Essa, Rajvinder Singh
Sitar: Manu Seen, Dalbir Singh
Vocals: Debjani Roy Chattopadhyay, Tina Mann, Surtaal Singh, Deepti Warrier
Dilruba: Maneev Singh
Sponsors:
Palo Alto Networks
Jupiter Research Foundation
Nutanix
Bahwan Cybertek
Accenture
Sunera Technologies
Xoriant
Multicoreware
Shasta Foods
Lasya Art
Mantra India
Chaat Bhavan
Institute for South Asia Studies UC Berkeley
Radio DeHottie Media Mahima
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