Unrehearsed (Virtual) Artist Residency Program

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Nava Dance Theatre is thrilled to announce the 2024 Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program (URP). Applications for 2024 are now open! The applications for 2024 is now closed.

The Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program aims to fund and support the creation of new dance work by artists who are often not represented in conventionally-funded spaces in the South Asian Dance industry. The program keeps care & developmental support front and center while working toward sharing a Final Work in Progress.

We are very excited to announce our 2024 Cohort members!


OUR 2024 COHORT!

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Are you creating new work inspired by mythology? Or current events? Contemporary history? In this discussion and workshop, Mimi Mondal, Hugo and Nebula award nominated short story writer, will describe how she uses imagination and fiction to show her
THIS THURSDAY! (Friday morning IST) Join us in a virtual story circle led by Dr. Yashoda Thakore, with participants Annabattula Lakshmi Mangatayaru, Charumathi Chandrasekar and Aniruddha Knight, as they discuss their ancestral connections to their r
Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program 2022 Artist: Thilagavathi Palani (@thilagavathi.kattaikkuttu) Thilagavathi Palani is the first-ever female performer of the traditional art form Kattaikkuttu, an all-night form of Tamil theatre that had predomin
Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program 2022 Artist: Talin Subbaraya (@the.ever.spinning.top) Talin Subbaraya grapples with movement, theatre and writing. He was a part of G5A Foundation and Soho Theatre's collaborative script writing program,"Wr

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