Broadway to Bombay Comes to Alpha Omega Black Box

Eec! Productions, Inc., presents Broadway to Bombay at Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Studio: 70 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003. Tickets, with a price of $15.00 available at https://www.broadwaytobombay.com. Tickets with a price of $20.00 at door.

This interactive evening plans for an international audience congregating downtown under ambient music and lighting and swept into an evening of inspirational speakers and top-notch specialty dance performances, culminating into an all participatory flagging dance workshop. Broadway to Bombay, now in its 2nd year, has on August 4th committed to LGBTQIA community building for our South Asian friends and family in the United States and India. Wine will be sold with south-Asian themed music to set the mood. Opening remarks by Anthony Giorgio and Tommie Wherle. The Rogue Dancers will open the event followed by a mindfulness journey talk led by Dr. Deepak Kashyap from Mumbai. Camp and Vamp of Spiral Effect will make a surprise appearance to get audience pumped up for the flagging workshop lead by Mykel, creator of Flow and Flair. We will Instagram and Facebook Live the event for our friends in Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC and India.

Broadway to Bombay returned from a successful event in Mumbai January 2018 and began as a conversation in 2014 between project creator; Michael (Mykel) Dicus, and his friends Prince Manvendra and Duke Deandre of India. Inside their activism, they chose flagging as a creative way to end LGBTQ stigma and hate in India. Broadway to Bombay's goal is to use "Flag-Dance" in a workshop format to unleash that which cannot be verbalized. Gay Folklore says flagging originated during the height of the AIDS epidemic where individuals out at a club or social event would wave a handkerchief on the dance floor in honor of a person who had died from the disease. Overtime, the dancing and handkerchiefs became colorful fabric of expression and Broadway to Bombay is sharing this piece of gay history now to inspired South Asian members of the LGBTQ community to explore their personal stories and give them a means to express themselves.

Speakers-

Anthony Giorgio (Host)- Lead Choreographer of World Wide Flash Mob by Life Vest Inside. Business Manager of The Golden Gays, NYC, and project manager for Flow and Flair by Eec Productions.

Tommie Wherle (guest speaker)- Started HRC in St. Louis as first female co-chair and served first 2 terms on Board of Governor for HRC. Tommie lobbied Congress several times for "LGB" before the "T", has met President Clinton and First Lady Clinton, Gore & Tipper as well as Senator Kennedy.

Deepak Kashyap (featured speaker)-is a wellness counsellor and life skills trainer. Deepak holds a Master's Degree in the Psychology of Education from the University of Bristol, UK. He has been formally trained in advanced programs in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) psychotherapy from the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Performers-

THE ROGUE DANCERS a Queens based dance company, work rooted in examining dance as a medium for storytelling with the goal of invoking emotional and thoughtful reactions. They draw inspiration from personal experiences, the art world, pop-culture and third wave feminism. The Rogue Dancers have present work at the DanceBarn Festival, MN, Southern Vermont Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, and Aliey Citi Group Theater www.TheRogueDancers.com

SPIRAL EFFECT is a specialty entertainment dance group produced by Eec! Productions, Inc. Group members have performed in Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Pittsburgh PA, and made it to Celebrity Judging Round of America's Got Talent Season 5. Camp, Vamp, Tramp, Scamp send kisses.

Workshop Leader-

Michael (Mykel) Dicus has been an entertainment professional for over 20 years, Mykel's performances cover a wide range from Jesus Christ Superstar (with Ted Neely); Dreamgirls, directed by original Broadway cast creatives; TV's America's Got Talent- Season 5, singing before celebrity judges. He is the owner of Eec! Productions, he performs with Spiral Effect and presents Flow and Flair classes in NYC and New Jersey.