Indian Summer Festival: Why We Work Out

A highly physical and deeply moving new immersive performance by Anita Majumdar, commissioned and in development with Nightswimming and directed by Brian Quirt.

Why We Work Out invites the audience into the ways in which Anita’s embodied relationship with exercise has become entwined with major events in her life.

Having used various exercise regimens over the years to train for her dance and storytelling work, Anita returns to the video routines she once referenced, drawing points of connection between critical moments in her diasporic lived experience and the movements she once felt compelled towards.

Why We Work Out weaves together rigorous practice, Hindu mythology, classical Indian dance and Indian pop culture as Anita looks back at her training regimes. In doing so, she discovers something about her future self. Join us for this serious, yet comic, survey of the bridge between our lives, our bodies, and our interior selves.…