Dastangoi at The Attic

Team Dastangoi presents
an evening of Dastangoi for NYU students

Ankit Chadha and Ashish Paliwal present Dastan Aazar Jaadu Ki
Manu Dhingra and Nadeem Shah present excerpts from Dastan-e-Chouboli

6.15 pm, January 14, The Attic, Regal Building, CP, Delhi.

This will be followed by Q&A with Mahmood Farooqui

Dastangoi workshop

Team Dastangoi 

announces a Dastangoi workshop 

for third generation Dastangos

- Only those wishing to perform Dastangoi professionally should reply

- Interested candidates should write to Manu Sikander Dhingra (manusikander@yahoo.com) and register

- Up to twenty people will be selected 

- Those selected will be expected to perform at least thirty shows of Dastangoi in Delhi and other places for free

- Those wishing to participate should get hold of the Urdu/Hindi Dastangoi books (published by Rajkamal) and read it.

20th, 21st and 22nd January. 10 am to 5 pm

At The Attic (Regal Building, CP, Delhi)

Participants must take care of their own meals.

A New Year of Dastans - at Prithvi, Mumbai

Team Dastangoi opens the new year 2014

 with a fistful of tales

at the Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai 

Directed by Mahmood Farooqui 

6 pm Jan 02, 2014

Two tales from Dastan-e-Amir Hamza & the Mumbai debut of the iconic Beytaal Pacheesee tales.

Performers: Mahmood Farooqui, Danish Husain, Rajesh Kumar, & Rana Pratap Senger

9 pm Jan 02, 2014

A tale from Tilism-e-Hoshruba & the Dastan-e-Taqseem-e-Hind (The Partition of India Dastan)

Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain 

6 pm Jan 03, 2014

Dastan-e-Chouboli & Dastan-e-Sedition

Performers: Manu Sikander Dhingra & Nadeem Shah, Rajesh Kumar & Rana Pratap Sengar

9 pm Jan 03, 2014

Mantoiyat

Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain

Tickets at http://www.prithvitheatre.org/

Celebrating Translation with Chouboli

As part of the Harper Collins festival on translation,

Team Dastangoi pays a special tribute to Vijay Dan Detha
by performing its adapation of the man's fabulous tale:

Dastan-e- Chouboli

Performed by: Manu Sikander Dhingra and Nadeem Shah

Directed by: Mahmood Farooqui

Max Mueller Bhawan, KG Marg
8.30 PM, December 12, 2013.

Dastan-e-Khusrau at Lucknow Literature Carnival

Team Dastangoi presents

Dastan Khusrav-e-Shireen Sukhan Ki

a dastangoi presentation on the life, times and works of the phenomenon called

Amir Khusrau Dehalvi,

the 13th century poet

at the Lucknow Literature Carnival

Written and Performed by: Ankit Chadha

Directed by: Mahmood Farooqui