Today is the evening to strike lightning/ Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai

Today is the evening to strike lightning/ Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai

Mainstage Presentation

Duration: 45 mins

Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar’s first choreographic collaboration is an act of devotion that collapses Waacking, choreographic scores, and gestures sourced from memories and images of their mothers dancing. Today is the evening to strike lightning is a poetic consideration of dances past in order to surface what has been submerged over time.

Echoes of joy, resistance, and care are embodied in a tender act of reclamation, a quiet riot against forgetting. Folding the past into the present to make way for something newly possible, here, every step is an offering toward what endures.

Premiered at Indian Summer Fest July 5th, 2025; Performance at the Surrey Art Gallery's Kinaesthesia Exhibition symposium November 21, 2025.

 

Choreography by Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar

Performance by Simran Sachar

Outside Eye Lisa Gelley

Sound Jackie Adrian

Lights Carlie Cy

Set design Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar  

Set construction Uros Sanjevic

Costume Design Sarah Doucet

With thanks to: Am Johal, Indian Summer Festival, School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU

Photo Credit: Marshall To