"not two not one"

choreography and performance: Cynthia Lee and Shyamala Moorty original music: Paul Livingstone

This dance duet depicts a relationship so intimate that it’s not always clear where one person starts and the other ends.  Negotiating the exacting rhythms of North Indian kathak, the piece shifts between sensual connectedness, weight-sharing, and rough-and-tumble humor.

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Shyamala Moorty is a founding member of the Post Natyam Collective and holds an MFA in dance from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. Her work draws on her training in Bharata Natyam (with Malathi Iyengar and Medha Yodh), contemporary western dance, theater, and yoga. Her interdisciplinary solo show, RISE, was acclaimed as a "tour de force" by the LA Times and toured to venues such as the Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Festival in Toronto, the Conference on South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley. In addition to her work with the Post Natyam Collective, Shyamala also has collaborated and performed with Los Angeles based organizations Great Leap, the Rangoli Dance Company, and TeAda Productions. Shyamala was also a soloist and principal dancer for the Aman International Folk Ensemble and continues as an Aman Dance Educator, developing and teaching a creative world dance curriculum in schools throughout Southern California. As an educator and activist she designed and coordinated Artwallah's summer arts development program, YouthWallah, and served as the first Executive Director of WYSE (Women and Youth Supporting Each other). Shyamala has taught at UCLA and Cal Poly Pomona and currently teaches yoga, dance and pilates at several community colleges including Rio Hondo College and West LA College. Shyamala was recently awarded the first place Professional Artist Fellowship by the Long Beach Arts Council and the City of Long Beach, which she used to create her newest solo show "Carrie's Web.

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