The title HauNodi (pronounced haw-no-thi), combines the Cantonese and Bengali words for river, a powerful metaphor that has inspired this performance by two seasoned storytellers. Rubena Sinha and Diana Tso invite children on a journey on a river of words, music, and movement with a stories inspired by their respective cultures from the birth of the Ganges to a magic paintbrush wielded by a brave young girl.
河 Cantonese
নদী Bengali
A 2022 WeeFestival “Seedling Show”! Be the first to share in this beautiful story performed by the dynamic duo of Ruby Sinha and Diana Tso.
HauNodi 河 নদী Creative Team
Created and Performed by Diana Tso and Ruby Sinha
Third-Eye and Dramaturgy by Lynda Hill
HauNodi is a WeeFestival “Seedling” commission.
About Ruby Sinha and Diana Tso
Over the past thirty years, Rubena Sinha has been involved in the creation of numerous cross cultural performances in Canada; primarily as Founder and Artistic Director of Fusion Dance Theatre, Inc based in Winnipeg. Trained as a classical dancer in India, Canadian for most of her life, and now based in Toronto, Rubena interweaves stories of personal history and experience with Hindu mythology and folktales – creating a world in which the listener encounters talking animals and the forces of nature, Gods and Goddesses and members of her family – all in a quest to find meaning and value in the face of life’s challenges.
Diana Tso is a Dora award winning theatre artist, storyteller, actor, playwright and a theatre faculty member at George Brown College. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA hons in English Literature and Ecole Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq in France. Her most recent performances include Modern Times Stage Company’s The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Smith- Gilmour’s Les Misérables, Stratford Festival’s 2017 season in Bakkhai and The Komagata Maru Incident. Her Red Snow Collective empowers women’s voices and re-imagines mythologies through female perspectives
Visit the Ruby Sinha and Diana Tso website
Photography by Justin Lauzon