As our inaugural event in the ADA series, we are hosting a performance of Queen-size, a protest-performance in response to the sexual limitations of Section 377 of the IPC, by Gati Dance Forum (in collaboration with Sandbox Collective). Queen-size is a choreographic exploration that takes the form of a detailed study of the intimacy between two men. Played out on a charpoy, the duet examines the nuts and bolts – carnal, mechanical and emotional – of a close encounter between two male bodies.
In making such an encounter visible, Queen-size poses questions around spectatorship, privacy and dissent. The work has been triggered by Nishit Saran’s article titled “Why My Bedroom Habits Are Your Business,” which was first published in the Indian Express in January 2000.