YaliniDream
Interdisciplinary; Theater, Dance, Spoken Word
Photo: Ren Hsieh
Presenting:
Wounds Unkissed
On participating in Vagina Festival 2008:
In this new & evolving work, YaliniDream incorporates
her unique blend of spoken word poetry, song, theater,
and dance in a performance that speaks to the survival
of spirit. This vigorous performance journeys thru
many spaces from the humorous conflict of a young
girl’s dilemma between sexy thoughts and bedtime
prayers to a mother coming to terms with her
daughter’s sexuality & community’s contradictions to
the heart wrenching stories of the ethnic conflict in
Sri Lanka. YaliniDream travels this terrain through a
hybrid form of dance that draws upon contemporary and
classical South Asian forms as well as US Urban dance.
About YaliniDream:
YaliniDream is a Queer Sri Lankan Tamil raised in
outside lands. She conjures spirit through her unique
blend of poetry, theater, song, and dance: "Sick of
bouncing between in betweens, I live in the
borderlands where poetry is theater is love is
movement is song is prayer is rebellion. I look to
reshape reality seeking peace through justice in the
lands of earth, psyche, spirit, and dream."
YaliniDream's performance work explores issues in the
Sri Lankan Diaspora using gender and sexuality as a
lens. Her directorial and facilitation work centers
interdisciplinary collaboration. She has toured
nationally throughout the US as well as performing in
Sri Lanka & Canada. YaliniDream was director of Mango
Tribe's NYC run of Sisters in the Smoke and the
Creation Myth Project as well as Interim Artistic
Director of the group during 2007. She wrote and
performed in Strange Rain which was a part of the
National Asian American Theater Fesitaval in 2007.
Recently she was the director and facilitator of
Andolan's Sukh aur Dukh ki Kahani--a storytelling
project with Bangladeshi and Indian domestic workers
in Queens, NY. YaliniDream was a panelist for the
Leeway Foundation's Transformation Awards, a 2006
Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellow, and a 2008 Urban Art's
Initiative Fellow.
Contact: yalinidream@gmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/yalinidream
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Wounds Unkissed
—Spoken word poetry, song, theater, and dance: YaliiniDream
—Cellist: Varuni Tiruchelvam
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