ABSTRACT
N Naidu, Vayu b. 1957, Delhi, India storyteller, performer, writer Naidu has achieved international recognition for her transcultural storytelling skills, both as a writer and a performer. Her productions include The Word is Out (1995) and Kathasuniascea (1996-7). Kathasuniascea works through music and movement to retell stories from India, Nigeria and Ireland. With composer Judith Weir she created Parting Company (1997), a celebration of European and Indian mythologies following fifty years of India's independence. As a storyteller she has toured l i terature and m u s i c festivals in Greece, Portugal, Sweden, France, Ireland, Germany and Italy. She has performed in a range of venues including concert halls, schools, prisons and shelters. Naidu is founder and artistic director of the intercultural storytelling company Brumhalata. She writes stories for children (published by HarperCollins), which have been taken up in the Channel 4 animation film Biswas, and a volume of her retelling of Indian folk tales is published by Tulika, Madras. Naidu is also storytelling consultant for Channel 4 World Faith films, and is artistic producer for Natak, a cultural initiative designed to promote and to celebrate Asian arts at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester. In 1994, the University of Leeds awarded Naidu Europe's first Ph.D. in oral tradition as performance. 'The Vayu Naidu Company' is dedicated to performance storytelling and methods, apprenticeships, corporate visions and communities in asylum. During
