Riti Sachdeva

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Hear the rhythm? Feel it pulsing through your chair, your body? La Resadora and her Brood of Dreams speak the rhythm, sing it, tap, it, drum and clap it. They travel the world, marking the rhythm.
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The rhythm is a code woven through the piece. Each character needs it, calls it, uses it, defies it.
Hear the song? It’s La Resadora and her brood of dreams, Justice, Dignity, and Love. Like the tune of an ice cream truck, they sing out their fandangos to market their services: wailing the dead over to the other side of the veil.
With so much war, pestilence, climate collapse - La Resadora is making bank. But none of her dreams want to carry on her work; her dreams have their own ambitions. And each dream, is picked off one by one. Enter Mary, Mary, a software engineer, a LiveCodera who wants to use her brilliance to create an app to carry on La Resadora’s work. But can artificial intelligence carry the work of sentient knowledge?
Each character negotiates their livelihood with their calling. The escobilla (footwork) and muñeqa (hand gestures) battles are the forms the negotiations take. Each amplified with the sharp head turns of flamenco. Each resolution, stamped with a rematé, the closing of a phrase. Flamenco embedded in each action and desire.
A traveling piece, the audience move with the story, stand in for the “town folk”, follow the characters through the landscapes of rituals and choices of living and dying.

On the edge of a highway on the edge of a city, Rajiv runs the Taj Palace (motel). Sita’s got business there. Nina’s wants to shut it down. Bhagath Singh Thind’s been waiting there for decades. And Jon Wane just might have the key.
Bollywood and Twin Peaks meet in Welcome to the Taj Palace (motel) where the personal and political collide with the arcane in a shitty motel lobby. A biting and incisive Indo-Gothic exploration of how class, caste, and white supremacy run parallel and converge.

Part cabaret, part memoir, part mysticism, five story-songs connected through gesture and sub-story. A personal, political, and mystical adventure of becoming and being a brown queer working class immigrant feminist - and the radical women of color who paved the path. Written and performed by Riti Sachdeva, as a solo show, or with a musician; devised.

In an elaborate scheme to avenge the suicide of her husband and thousands of other farmers, Asha manipulates her way into the home of Darren Warren, CEO of Gynsence, a multinational, bio-engineering corporation. As the maid in the home, Asha takes on the responsibility of caring for Darren's wife, Hope, pregnant with their first child. As the pregnancy progresses, Asha cultivates her power over Hope and Darren's life with the guidance of her companion, Chicoo, a flute-playing monkey in order to execute her uncanny plan to genetically modify the fetus in Hope's womb.

When Raba Zacharai suddenly passes away, his daughter Shiraz inherits the Persian rug shop he built in New Haven on leaving Iran in 1979. As an unexpected love affair develops with a dangerously beautiful customer and her mother's secret longing to return to Iran after decades of exile grows more urgent, Shiraz must negotiate the costly business of carpets, family, duty, and love.

A joyous, colorful occasion, a wedding day in the Punjab region, 1947, the patchwork of two families eager with anticipation for their pending unification. In PARTS OF PARTS & STITCHES, Yamuna and Jiwan prepare for their lives and future together in a small village of what is soon to become Pakistan. Soon after the couple celebrates their matrimony, the reality of the political and religious upheaval forced on the country by Britain’s abandonment, becomes apparent. The violence of man against man, erupts in a horrific massacre. With perseverance and a will to survive, Yamuna desperately attempts to stitch back the pieces of her life.

Using the text from actual interviews of people of color with mental illness and people in their support systems, this experimental piece weaves together the voices in a sometimes eerie, sometimes humorous symphonic narrative.

La Fea follows a young woman who tackles hardships, unearths secrets and discovers an ancient legacy of flamenco.