Apar-Kaya Expressing Through Another Body-Concluding Performance at KCC

News Desk, News Nation 360 : With great pleasure, the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC) and Weavers Studio Resource Centre offer Apar-Kaya, a captivating performance by the celebrated dancer Shashwati Garai Ghosh. This performance, which serves as the finale of the historic exhibition Textiles from Bengal: A Shared Legacy, combines dance, history, and textile customs in a profoundly moving retelling of memory and myth. "Apar-Kaya" is the tale of Vedavati's transformation, employing her unfulfilled destiny as an allegory for Sita's strength, with the threads of the loom symbolizing her tests and the cloth she weaves representing her strength, crossing

past and present timelines to redefine morality and power. This performance strongly correlates to the "Textiles from Bengal: A Shared Legacy" show, one which uncovers four centuries of Bengali textile cultures, stressing entanglement globally and exchange in terms of migration and trade, much similar to Vedavati's tale of unscrambling history and identity. This show and this performance together picture how bodies as well as textiles become bearers of remembrance and metamorphosis, both demonstrating the permutative fluidity of the artistic act. The Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC) collaborates with Weavers Studio Resource Centre in presenting this union of dance and the history of textiles, while "Apar-Kaya" stands as an artistic epilogue to the exhibition, a manifestation of the longevity of heritage, craft, and storytelling.

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