Theatre Arts Program12pm - 2pm
Room 511, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Join Shivaike Shah of Khameleon Productions to explore questions of diversity and collaboration by working with the text of the company's adaptation of Medea.
To attend, RSVP to theatrearts@sas.upenn.edu by Thursday, March 24th at 12pm.
Shivaike writes: At Khameleon, an all-BIPOC production company, we are focused on the creative and collaborative capacity of artists. How can we privilege creativity over immediate responses to our work as ‘diverse’, and the responsibility of our work to be anti-racist? Can we create work that isn’t immediately political, when the very foundation of our company, and every creative move we make, is inherently political? Can we allow our artists' creativity to come forward in a way that decolonises and ‘un-privileges’ Western creative ideals, while still using work from the Western Canon'?
About the Artist
Shivaike (shiv-ek) Shah is a British Indian producer who has worked in fashion, theatre and film, and recently finished production on a major Netflix feature film. After graduating in English from University College, Oxford University, in 2019, he founded Khameleon Productions. He is currently the Visiting Artist at Brown Arts Institute and his visit to Penn is part of the Uprooting Medea tour.