“Whatever the dynamic duo of Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar conceive as their first choreographic collaboration will surely be stunning, inventive, challenging and provocative.” — Am Johal, ISF 2025 Curator in Residence
Indian Summer Festival is thrilled to present an original, newly commissioned dance work.
Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar’s first choreographic collaboration is an act of devotion that collapses Waacking, choreographic scores, and gestures sourced from memories and images of their mothers dancing. Today is the evening to strike lightning is a poetic consideration of dances past in order to surface what has been submerged over time.
Echoes of joy, resistance, and care are embodied in a tender act of reclamation, a quiet riot against forgetting. Folding the past into the present to make way for something newly possible, here, every step is an offering toward what endures.
Drawing on an invitation from ISF 2025 curator-in-residence Am Johal, Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar, in their first choreographic collaboration promise to deliver something distinctive, personal and political to ISF audiences.
This will be a special, intimate evening not to be missed.
Date: Saturday, July 5th, 2025
Doors: 7:00 p.m
Show: 7:30 p.m
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