NAYIKA
A DANCING GIRL

NAYIKA
A DANCING GIRL

  • 30 Apr – 19 May 24 Upstairs Theatre

NAYIKA
A DANCING GIRL

Co-Created and Co-Directed by
Nithya Nagarajan and Liv Satchell

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 30 Apr – 19 May 24
  • Content warning

    Contains themes of gendered violence. Includes coarse language, loud music, sudden loud sound, strobe lighting and blackout.

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A virtuosic solo performance mixing storytelling, live music, and Bharatanatyam dance.

A chance remark by an old friend in Sydney takes a woman back to her teenage years: living alone, by the sea in Chennai. She’s preparing for her debut dance recital, her Arangetram. She’s falling in love too! But when young love begins to unravel, the memories flooding back take on a power of their own…

A breathtaking solo performance melding storytelling, live music and Bharatanatyam dance, made for the unique talents of Helpmann Award-winning Vaishnavi Suryaprakash (Counting and Cracking, Galileo, Sami in Paradise), Nayika is story as survival. It is dance as resistance. It is a new type of heroine: one we have yet to imagine.

Vaishnavi is another treasure of the Belvoir stage, and this piece will enhance her reputation as a performer of skill and nuance, I’m sure. It’s astonishing how this work can be simultaneously rhapsodic and confronting. The dance is hypnotic, the music is spine-tingling, and the story is haunting and profound. – Eamon

The development of this work has been supported by: Vitalstatistix and Arts House

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TEAM

  • Nithya Nagarajan
    Co-Creator and Co-Director
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    Nithya Nagarajan is a contemporary performance maker and curator working across Australia and the Asia Pacific with an award-winning PhD in Performance Studies. She has 12 years’ experience in programming, creative producing, international engagement and transformative justice in the arts. She currently serves as co-Artistic Director at Arts House, forms 1/4th of artist collective H_ME W_WRK […]

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  • Liv Satchell
    Co-Creator and Co-Director
  • Cast

  • Vaishnavi Suryaprakash
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    Vaishnavi Suryaprakash is an actor, dancer and emerging writer. She completed her training at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, in 2017 and also holds an Arts/Law degree from Sydney University. Her theatre credits include Counting and Cracking, Life of Galileo and Sami in Paradise for Belvoir; Grand Horizons, White Pearl and Julius Caesar […]

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  • Musicians

  • Marco Cher-Gibard
  • Bhairavi Raman
  • Creatives

  • Marco Cher-Gibard
    Sound Designer and Composer
  • Keerthi Subramanyam
    Set and Costume Designer
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    Keerthi is a Sydney based set and costume designer for live performance and film. Keerthi is a National Institute of Dramatic Art, BFA (Design for Performance, 2019) graduate, and a member of the Australian Production Design Guild. Keerthi has designed set and costumes for Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Chewing Gum […]

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  • S. Shakthidharan
    Dramaturg
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    Shakthi is a western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He’s a writer, director and composer of original music. His debut play Counting and Cracking (Belvoir and Co-Curious), received critical, commercial and community acclaim at the 2019 Sydney and Adelaide Festivals. The script won the Victorian Premier’s Literature Prize and the NSW […]

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    TERM TWO

    See this play for:
    SOLO PERFORMANCE
    BHARATANATYAM DANCE

    Recommended for Years 11 – 12

    Curriculum Links

    Drama (Stage 6)
    Preliminary
    • Theatrical Traditions and Performance Styles
    HSC
    • Individual Project: Performance
    Dance (Stage 6)
    • Artform
      (Outcomes P1.1, P1.4, H1.1, H1.3)
    • Appreciation
      (Outcomes P4.4, P4.5, H4.1, H4.5)

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    All schools performances are followed by a Q&A session with the cast.
    • Fri, 17 May 2024 11:30am

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