June 6-8 & 14 -17,  2014

The Green River, Great Barrington MA

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Endure explores the fundamental impermanence of life, and the enduring strength of fragile vessels - human hearts and paper boats. Inspired by water, images from distant lands, and Japanese Butoh, within this work Prema offers an adaptation of a traditional Kudiyattam storyelling vignette wherein a single actor plays both a man and a woman. Kudiyattam is a 10,000 year-old Sanskrit drama form from Kerala, India. Also, in Asia , there is a custom of making ritual offerings for departed ones along a river; sometimes this is done in a paper boat.  

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Created & Performed by Pooja Prema

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Cymbal Players: Senta Reis, Gabrielle Senza, Kristin Grippo,

Amy Webb, Laura Geilen & Jinni Cavanaugh

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Photography: Peggy Reeves

Videography: Krysia Kurzyca / Editing: Nadya Mayumi

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