Charbagh

Charbagh is a multimedia work combining music, fabric, movement, and community art to explore how community cohesion is key to rebuilding a post-colonial world. A charbagh is an Indo-Persian, Islamic depiction of paradise characterized by four symmetrical gardens. In combination with this is an idealized, decolonized society to represent heaven on Earth. This work, both through creation and performance, serves as a temporal and physical representation of community. Over the progression of Charbagh, the audience is challenged to actively relearn what it means to be in community and the mutual benefits we all yield from it.


This work was performed at the Overture Center for the Arts, the largest arts venue in Wisconsin, to a sold-out audience.