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Jaikur
Kesha Raithatha
4th July, 5th July
Jubilee Square
JAIKUR is a short dance film and companion work to The Lost Breath, Kesha Raithatha’s larger live solo production. Created through intimate conversations and movement sessions with senior South
Asian women in Leicester, the film gathers stories of migration, memory, resilience, and ancestral femininity.
Set across the green landscapes and urban textures of Leicester’s South Asian heart of Belgrave Road — JAIKUR rewilds these women within the places they inhabit. It places them not at the margins, but fully visible within the wider landscape, honouring both their diasporic roots and their present-day belonging.
Rather than retelling stories literally, the film channels their emotional and spiritual resonance through movement, ritual, and cinematic imagery. It becomes an invocation of breath, lineage, and feminine inheritance — a celebration of women’s voices, visibility, and collective remembering.
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Jubilee Square
4th July, 5th July
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About Kesha Raithatha
Kesha Raithatha is a fierce and boundary-pushing dancer and choreographer whose work merges the precision of Kathak with the fluidity of contemporary movement. Her choreographic voice is rich, textured, and unapologetically experimental — reimagining what contemporary South Asian dance can be today.
With deep roots between the UK and India, and as a Work Place artist at The Place, an Associate Director with Aakash Odedra Company, Kesha moves between worlds — both culturally and creatively.
She’s driven by a passion to spark global artistic dialogue and create bold, socially relevant work that dives into the unspoken and the taboo. Kesha’s performances invite audiences into surreal, otherworldly spaces — where movement becomes memory, ritual, and radical transformation.
