Pages 365 - 370 │ Sirens, part VI│ Read by Karthika Naïr

Pages 365 - 370 │ Sirens, part VI│ Read by Karthika Naïr

Poet, fabulist and librettist, Karthika Naïr is the author of several books including the award-winning Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata. Her latest is the collaborative A Different Distance (Milkweed Editions, 2021), renga written with American poet Marilyn Hacker. The performances she has scripted and co-scripted have been staged at venues across the world, such as Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Esplanade (Singapore) and Lincoln Center (New York). Also a dance enabler, Naïr's closest association has been with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet as executive producer of works like Babel (Words), Puz/zle and Les Médusés, and as co-founder of Cherkaoui’s Antwerp-based company, Eastman.

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Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.

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