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Patruni Chidananda Sastry
Patruni is an Indian Classical expressionist dancer from hyderabad. Patruni chidananda sastry has learned Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi and international artforms such as Butoh. Patruni has developed his own style of dance called as Indian expressionist dance and uses it to address social concern
Our guest for this week, is the quintensencial queen Glorious Luna @glorious_luna . Suruj Rajkhowa, also known as Glorious Luna is a drag performer, actor, and model. They are very passionate about queer art and performance, and have also founded ‘Queer Carnival’ @queer_carnival which is a platform for queer centric events and parties. Through this interview with them, we explore the meaning of drag, the role it plays in their life, how they came to choose this form of art as their medium of expression and much more!
DragPeBathey was a series by @sas3dancingfeet which had conversation on drag by Indian drag queens and collected a lot of insight in these conversations. Its indeed a new beginning to shift this series to #DRAGVANTI .Sure the world breeds monsters and he finds himself a part of the Hood. As a queer ARTHHISSSTT, he wanted to showcase what’s in his repertoire’ to the Indian queer nightlife as a CLUBKID.SEVENTEEN- popped out of his mind onto a drawing pad 15 odd years ago in his Mathematics class, and that’s when he realized –“I AM THE BIG IDEA”. He is a very radical, creative and transgressive boy who loves to shake the mere establishment of normcore Fashion. A VOGUE Kid who gags y’all with Neon Art pop fantasies, Harlem 80’s ballroom moves and is always a Team Latex.Never trashy and always in something New because, This ain’t a culture, but is very much his Religion. His craft is vast, shapeless, genderless and he enjoys pricking Queer-phobic majority, wearing inches, longer than the mouth that runs around.
Our guest for this week, Ariel Moreira lives in Unquillo (Argentina) and recently graduated in Contemporary Dance from Universidad Provincial de Córdoba. Following his desire to build up a deeply genuine way of dancing, Ariel has attended the Subbody Resonance Butoh Himalaya Dance School (India), where he researched on butoh dance. Ariel has been in india for a while now due to the pandemic restrictions and this strandedness is something which he is blending with his art of Butoh.
We are back with another awsome artist !!
Hiten Noonwal is an exclusive design educator, each time they teach they becomes a character according to the subject that they teach. They are also a multi disciplinary designer and a genderfluid performance artist. They have worked with Ritu Kumar, Raw mango and other designer brands.
Using their own body as a medium, and various techniques of photography, poetry, make-up art, costume design, fashion styling, and performance art they tries to raise voice for freedom, equality and acceptance. Their performances are more about self expression than any particular traditional dance form.
They have won Comicon cosplay, Vagabomb magazine has listed then among World's top seven genderfluid artistis who are breaking stereotypes through their performances. They have acted in a few short films. Their artworks and story has been covered by almost every Indian newspaper. Recently, they have represented India to an international performance show called Untitled World.
This monday we bring Drag pe BATHEY with @fadescha The journey of an artist makes the art form accessible, Here we are bringing a series of drag talk show presenting drag artists, curators and performers across the globe to share their stories and discuss their approach to the art of drag.
Our guest for this week, Vidisha-Fadescha is an artist-curator who focuses on archives, collaborations and experiences as a norm-critical pedagogy to Queer hegemonies. Having worked in the arts since 2008, Vidisha opened “Party Office”, an art and a social space in New Delhi in Jan 2020. In 2019 Fadescha initiated Dragery, a gathering for queer people to come together and explore genders, sexualities, identity, kink, desire and other political intersections of queerness, and a community through drag. Dragery also challenges mainstream drag, queer visibility and representation in nightlife in India through parties called "Dragery Takes The Floor". #drag #dragqueen #dragart #dragtalk #dragshow
Remember the choice you made which was in your favor ? So was mine !! Whats your choice