Center for Indian Performing Arts
Kalapriya Center for Indian Performing Arts presents India’s artistic diversity through performing arts that preserve traditional South Asian art forms, and that build bridges between the performing arts and our contemporary lives.
“AHIMSA (Non violence) needs you to have more strength and more courage”
What happens when a ten year old child sees the monumental national struggle disrupting her home? Changing her life?
Transforming her values? Ahimsa for Freedom! is a play centered around the Indian Civil Rights movement, through the perspective of a young child witnessing history unfold before her.
Script by Gowri Ramnarayan based on the Novel by Supriya Kelkar
Performed by the students of John J. Pershing Elementary School of Chicago
Director Kasi Aysola
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“I am absolutely in awe of the effort Kalapriya is making to widen out its brief having been moved by this film to the degree that it has. To actually move forward and encompass more than dance and culture, because culture is what we are talking about. Anybody who cares about culture needs to address this issue of violence against women. And in being this versatile in your thinking, this open to change, you’re changing your own brief about what Kalapriya does and is doing, you’re encompassing something that is of the now. And that in itself is an active movement of generosity and commitment to change. So, my complete respect to Kalapriya.”
Leslee Udwin
Director and producer, India's Daughter
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