Dakshina collaborates with WIT at the Source Festival
 Going against the Flow: Improvised Lives
July 1-3
Source Theatre
1835 14th Street NW
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This project is a dynamic collaboration of improvised spoken word and movement. Mark Chalfant and Daniel Phoenix Singh are bringing actors and dancers together for this project. Chalfant leads the cutting edge improv group Washington Improv Theater (WIT) and Singh directs the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. This project uses themes elicited from the audience to create quick scenes. The moods range from silly to poignant, but the scenes are sure to surprise and invigorate audiences with their sometime seamless, sometime lightning-fast mood and topic changes. The project plays with the notion of everyday life as a series of improvisations, and pushes the actors and dancers to think on their feet (literally and figuratively) as each player tries to support and challenge the others at the same time.
Read more about the show here. Read more about the Source Festival.
Dakshina performs at the Fringe Festival 
Songs Of My Life
Saturday July 26 at 8:30 pm
9:30 Club
815 V St. N.W.
Buy tickets online at dakshina.tix.com.
For this performance Dakshina presents three programs in one night in one of the hottest night clubs in the East Coast. We begin with Songs of My Life, and will follow with our collaboration with WIT Going against the Flow (see description above), and we'll close with an open performance. Songs of My Life, links a series of choreographed vignettes—each of which represents a snapshot of certain relationship or situation that might happen in a club. Between the vignettes, a DJ spins live mixes of songs while audience and cast members alike are invited to dance. Read more about the show here. Read more about the Fringe Festival.
 Dakshina is a finalist for two Dance Metro DC Awards
Dakshina has been selected as a finalist in the emerging group category and Daniel Phoenix Singh and Roxanne Morgan have been nominated in the best costume design category. Both the nominations are for Bell Song, our syncretic work that blends Bharata Natyam with Modern Dance. Bell Song was invited to the Lincoln Center in New York for the EnGendered Festival and most recently has been selected for the Dance Downtown festival in New York organized by the Indo American Arts Council. The performances will take place at the Chase Plaza and at the Ailey Theater August 19-21. Details will be available on our website by the end of July.
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1816 New Hampshire Ave NW, Suite 109, Washington DC 20009. Please keep us on our feet, donate today! All of your contributions are fully tax-deductible. Tickets and additional information available online at www.dakshina.org/Events/.
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