InDance

Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

Roundhouse Performance Centre

inDANCE’s Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is an original Bharatanatyam-inspired contemporary full-length work choreographed by Hari Krishnan for dancers Arun Mathai and Sujit Vaidya. The work incorporates multi-media visual design and is performed to a commissioned global music soundscape by UK composer, Niraj Chag.

Śiva kissed Viṣṇu is a rare, honest, unapologetic work that subverts the heterosexual, rigid vocabulary of Bharatanatyam, by queering its expected aesthetics. Two classically trained, out and proud, gay Indian male dancers perform a provocative duet focusing on same-sex love in the here and now, transgressing the fluid boundaries within the Kinsey scale of male to female and vice versa.

Śiva kissed Viṣṇu has a burning contemporary resonance as it seeks to achieve the very thing that old India outlawed, to "open the flood gates of delinquent behavior "!

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We regret to inform you that the City of Vancouver is shutting down all of our venues for at least the next two weeks to help mitigate the COVIDF-19 crisis so we are postponing all of our shows and classes until further notice.

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InDance

Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

Roundhouse Performance Centre

We regret to inform you that the City of Vancouver is shutting down all of our venues for at least the next two weeks to help mitigate the COVIDF-19 crisis so we are postponing all of our shows and classes until further notice.

We thank you for your support of the VIDF and trust that we will see you again when this pandemic is over.

Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget
VIDF Co-producers

InDance

Śiva kissed Viṣṇu

Roundhouse Performance Centre

We regret to inform you that the City of Vancouver is shutting down all of our venues for at least the next two weeks to help mitigate the COVIDF-19 crisis so we are postponing all of our shows and classes until further notice.

We thank you for your support of the VIDF and trust that we will see you again when this pandemic is over.

Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget VIDF Co-producers

Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget
VIDF Co-producers