Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer

Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts, Chicago CampusAbbott Hall
710 N. DuSable Lake Shore Drive
Wirtz Theater (Room 203)

We all present different faces to the world, but some are more different than most. In this funny and visually stunning one-person show, Shane Shambhu reveals the secret life he kept from his school friends while growing up in the cultural melting pot of East London while training in the Indian performing art of Bharatanatyam. Combining physical theatre, spoken word, Indian dance, film, and an original score, this coming-of-age story draws on creator Shane Shambhu’s lived experience, capturing the multiple identities that the children of migrants develop growing up in the UK, showing one face at home and another to the outside world.