Ground-breaking queer Kathak dance production, ‘Waltzing the Blue Gods’, coming to Brighton during Pride on Sunday, August 4

Jaivant Patel Company is performing Waltzing the Blue Gods at South East Dance during Brighton & Hove Pride on Sunday, August 4 from 6pm. Part auto-biographical, part fantasy, the evening celebrates new possibilities for a rich and traditional North Indian art form, Kathak, in the context of modern contemporary Britain that’s proud of its LGBTQ+ narratives.

The performance is being held at the Jamie Watton Space in The Dance Space, 2 Market Square, Circus Street, Brighton, BN2 9AS. You can book your tickets here. The space is wheelchair accessible from street level by lift and has access to wheelchair accessible toilet and changing facilities.

Waltzing The Blue Gods brings the storytelling technique of Kathak into an unapologetic theatre space, where artistic director Jaivant Patel reimagines the queer symbolism of the Hindu gods, Shiva and Krishna, and the role they played in his sexual awakening and spiritual relationship to faith, to becoming an openly homosexual British-Indian man.