Episode 3 - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Every Friday.

Episode 3 is with Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, an internationally touring artist practicing the Indian classical dance form, Kathak. Born, brought up and living in California, U.S.A, she received her training for two decades by the late Pandit Chitresh Das.

Farah is known for her powerful and evocative storytelling, technical precision, delicacy and grace - bringing a clairvoyant voice to the contemporary stage, while simultaneously maintaining the traditional aspects of Kathak.

Farah is a former member of the Chitresh Das Dance Company and former instructor of the Chhandam School of Kathak. Touring extensively with the company nationally and internationally since 1998 and later as a soloist with her first solo performance in 2007.

In 2015, Farah presented her first full length production of her own original choreography - The Twentieth Wife - a performance of Farah as the solo dancer through an adaptation of a novel by Indu Sundaresan of the same title, including live musical accompaniment and multimedia. Farah continues to tour the follow up to this project, The Forgotten Empress, with an original script written by playwright and director, Matthew Spangler.

In 2016, Farah founded her own organization, Noorani Dance, providing in depth training to students ages 5 and up.

For more on Farah and Noorani Dance: https://nooranidance.com/farah-yasmeen-shaikh

Intro music credits: Shehroz Hussain (Sitar), Yousuf Kerai (Tabla), Farah Yasmeen Shaikh (singing) 

To watch the vodcast (YouTube) and hear the podcast (various platforms), you will find the links to it on: suhaee.com/podcast/

Artwork by Abro Khuda Bux

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