This September, Roshni, the latest show from Sonia Sabri Company, the UK’s leading South Asian dance and music company, comes to York Theatre Royal’s Studio (Fri 26 Sep – Sat 27 Sep).
Roshni (from the Persian word meaning light or brilliance) is an intimate crafting of dance and live music, inspired by the stories and experiences of everyday people. Made up of three distinctive and engaging dance pieces: The Call, The Light and The Wave, Roshni explores the highs and lows of life today and gives us hope for the future.
The show is choreographed by multi award-winning Dance Artist and Choreographer Sonia Sabri who was honoured last month with an MBE for her Services to Dance. This incredible national award recognised Sonia’s relentless hard work bringing South Asian dance from the largest of international stages to the smallest of local communities in rural villages.
Roshni brings together Sonia Sabri MBE’s distinctive style of dance, rooted in the traditions of Kathak from Northern India, yet reimagined in the context of her lived British experience, with diverse musical genres and artists, ranging from South Asia, Middle East and Europe, celebrating the rich diversity of our global community.
Audiences will be taken on an emotional journey through wordless storytelling, eclectic music, percussive dance and upbeat audience interaction. With improvised and spoken word/beatboxing sections like no other, and a world class live musical ensemble, not one performance of Roshni is the same as the last!
Both moving and entertaining it is the perfect first introduction to those who have never experienced South Asian dance and offers something quite different for dance connoisseurs.
Tickets are on sale now via yorktheatreroyal.co.uk and at Box Office (01904 623568).
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