SitaaurGita

25/05/2018

Snippets showing the growing web of knowledge through the last few days in Het Verhalenhuis. The installation aimed to bring together the conversations, memories and objects from the culturally diverse neighbourhood of Woensel West. The conversations took place during sunny afternoons in the park, on the streets, over warm dinner and several cups of coffee.

The rhizomatic structure or the “web of wool”, which serves as the base of the work, takes inspiration from Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome Theory.
A rhizome is “always in the middle, in between things” and never complete. However, these randomly linked connections continually multiply, promote further growth of knowledge and create non-linear cultural networks.

We invited neighbours and visitors to join the network, by sharing their knowledge and adding it to the web of stories.
home

14/11/2017

In India during the last five decades, more than 50 million people have been uprooted from their homes due to development-induced displacement. The displaced persons are mostly asset-less rural poor like landless labourers, small farmers, tribals, Dalits and Adivasis.

For the sake of national interest and development, these millions bear witness to the destruction of their own lives and livelihoods with bleak hopes of rehabilitation or settlement.

This short film captures the unsettling experience of displacement and homelessness transformed into a state of suspension.

HOME, SUSPENDED is a part of SitaaurGita, an ongoing movement-based video series on sociopolitical factors of India. The series attempts to illustrate the social, political & cultural fabric and investigate how deeply they are intertwined. The issues addressed, though pan-Indian in their discourse, have been showcased in an urban middle-class perspective.

Performers - Pragati Agarwal & Nikita Maheshwary
DoP - Sangeeta Banerjee & Ashish Banerjee
Editor - Amit Chatterjee

In India during the last five decades, more than 50 million people have been uprooted from their homes due to development-induced displacement. The displaced...

03/11/2016

Lines at the Outlet Dance Project. We were at New Jersey!

18/10/2016

LINES in New Jersey.
SitaaurGita premiere in USA at the Outlet Dance Festival!

01/03/2016

Today, we speak to a choreographer/performer in India, Nikita Maheshwary, who has recently started running a youtube channel, SitaaurGita, which showcases short videoworks on socio-political issues of India.

28/02/2016

Feeling horrified and dismayed...


the repeating pattern, the obvious indication

20/02/2016

First performance of our short drug awareness piece LINES, in Chandigarh. Was so glad to be part of Morni Hills Performance Art Festival!

03/02/2016

Our new short on one of the most threatening issues of the young India- DRUGS

a work-in-progress, the piece tries to delve into the issue of drug abuse in Punjab. The land is besieged with social, political & emotional recuperation of ...

02/02/2016

After months of back and forth & revisiting the same topic with different approaches, we are now a little closer to what might (or might not) be an apt way to talk about this multi-layered issue - DRUGS.

The geographical, political, social and cultural dimensions are so entangled that, first time in a long time dance didn't feel like the right language to address it.

05/12/2015

'a ban on what you eat, a ban on what you read
a ban on what you write, a ban on what you speak.'

A short film on the growing intolerance.

a Ban on what you eat a Ban on what you read a Ban on what you write a Ban on what you speak headlines keeps filling your head everyday and slowly you begun ...