Temple of Desire (2025)
Produced by
Presented by
Director: Govind Pillai
Venue
Run
July 4th, 2025 – July 11th, 2025
Synopsis
Enter the Temple of Desire—a visually stunning dance-theatre performance where the sensual meets the sacred.
This bold new work features 16 dancers trained in the classical Indian form of Bharatanātyam. Dangerously, they reclaim a pre-colonial world where the divine and the sensual unite with splendour and power. Subversive, sumptuous, and unapologetically queer, Temple of Desire confronts colonial loss and gendered oppression through dance that is both defiant and evocative. Steeped in tradition, visually rich and emotionally charged, this is radical performance as resistance—alive with urgency, beauty, intimacy, and joy. (fringetoronto.com)
Cast
| Adisri Preeti Devaraj | Performer |
| Anisha Manyal | Performer |
| Ashmita Roy | Performer |
| Divya Shreejit Kumar | Performer |
| Govind Pillai | Performer |
| Megha Subramanian | Performer |
| Neptune Henriksen | Performer |
| Pooja Murali | Performer |
| Prathyusha Dwibhashi | Performer |
| Rachana Joshi | Performer |
| Ramya Raghavan | Performer |
| Sangeeta Sathyanath | Performer |
| Sanskruti Marathe | Performer |
| Shivani Joshi | Performer |
| Veena Kadayaprath | Performer |
| Vrunda Upadhyay | Performer |
Creative Team
| Govind Pillai | Director |
| Govind Pillai | Choreographer |
| Max Woods | Lighting Designer |
| Divya Shreejit Kumar | Assistant Director |
| Ramya Raghavan | Assistant Director |
| Sangeeta Sathyanath | Assistant Director |
| Veena Kadayaprath | Assistant Director |
Production
| Manjusha Manjusha | Stage Manager |
| Bradley Clayton | Trident Prop |
| Warrick Mackrill | Trident Prop |
| Divya Shreejit Kumar | Costumes |
| Manjusha Manjusha | Props |
| Manjusha Manjusha | Costumes |
| Adrian van Raay | Audio Engineer |
| Shelly O’Meara | Graphic Designer |
| Michael Aleisi | Copy Consultant |
| Piera Dennerstein | Copy Consultant |
| Raina Peterson | Copy Consultant |
