by Imtiaz Popat
Queer Bharatanatyam dancer Sujit Vaidya who was featured at the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver is also featured at the Indian Summer Festival. His Breath in the Fragrance was featured at the Queer Arts Festival in June and his presentation of Off Centre is being featured at the Indian Summer Festival.
His powerful erotic style of dance are very compelling. His artistic choices reflect the curiosities and experiences he holds as a queer artist of colour, while deeply engaging with an art form rooted in tradition. His choreographies question the narrative and relevance of non inclusive traditional texts. He aims to create space for queer expression within the context of Bharatanatyam and seeks collaborations with other queer artists of colour.
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