{"id":32290,"date":"2013-07-27T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=32290"},"modified":"2013-07-24T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:57:25","slug":"soongava-%e2%80%93-dance-of-the-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=32290","title":{"rendered":"SOONGAVA \u2013 DANCE OF THE ORCHIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 27 @ 8PM<br \/>\nNYIT (1855 Broadway  New York, NY 10023)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/forstory-480x330.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[32290]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/forstory-621x414-480x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director Subama THAPA<br \/>\n2012 | Nepal,  France | 85 mins Nepali w\/ES<br \/>\nNew York Premiere<\/p>\n<p>Featuring two luminous performers, Deeya MASKEY, Nisha ADHIKARI, SOONGAVA \u2013 DANCE OF THE ORCHIDS is a tender and heartbreaking tale about two young women: Diya, who dreams of becoming a dancer, and her best girlfriend Kiran. When her feelings for Kiran deepen and develop into a love affair, she has to stand up against her family, and the traditions and morality of Nepali society. In a country where the \u201cthird gender\u201d is legally recognized, same-sex relationships continue to be stigmatized. This debut feature by Subarna THAPA is the first Nepali film to spotlight LGBTQ issues.<\/p>\n<p>AFTER PARTY RSVP @ Bamboo 52 (344 West 52nd Street New York, NY 10019)<\/p>\n<p>For More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiancinevision.org\/soongava\/.\">http:\/\/www.asiancinevision.org\/soongava\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 27 @ 8PM NYIT (1855 Broadway New York, NY 10023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32294,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32290\/revisions\/32294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}