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Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner (solo live performance, 2023)

Performance, video, & lighting by Nina Shekhar; recording by Four/Ten Media

An exploration of my brownness, identity, and sexuality. Performed live on October 24th, 2023 at Princeton University

Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner (video, 2023)

Video and music by Nina Shekhar

An exploration of my brownness, identity, and sexuality. Commissioned by Grand Rapids Symphony

Turn Your Feet Around (2022)

Video and music by Nina Shekhar

An analysis of my own body image through remixing Gloria Estefan's "Get On Your Feet." Commissioned by Alarm Will Sound

Sumer is icumen in (remix) (2022)

Video and music remix by Nina Shekhar

A psychedelic take on a medieval round. (NOTE: Video contains flashing lights.)

Uni (2022)

Video and music by Nina Shekhar

An ode to Sir Pull-A-Lot, my tweezers in shining armor. (NOTE: Video contains flashing lights.)

The Archer / Kabhi Kabhie (remix) (2023)

Video and music by Nina Shekhar

Remix of Taylor Swift’s “The Archer” (from her album “Lover”) & “Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein” (from the Bollywood movie “Kabhi Kabhie”) (NOTE: Video contains flashing lights.)

Old You (Maggie Dave remix) (2022)

Remix of Maggie Dave‘s “Old You”; music produced by Nina Shekhar, visualizer created by Yoon Kyeong Yang

Original song written by Sean David Christensen, Mark Christopher, and Tehillah Alphonso

Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner (trailer) (2021-2023)

Music and video by Nina Shekhar; full video to be released in 2023 (trailer available here)

I never truly felt like a woman growing up. Being brown, I was a woman in mind, form, soul, and ambition – but never in American societal perception. Being a focus of others’ desire felt impossible for me, so I thought I myself wasn’t allowed to desire.

Turn Your Feet Around (teaser) (2021-2022)

Gloria Estefan remix, video and music by Nina Shekhar (full track to be released in 2022; teaser clip available)

Turn Your Feet Around brings the nightclub to the concert hall. Using deconstructed and warped fragments of the ever fabulous Gloria Estefan’s “Get On Your Feet,” performers have a chance to reconnect with their own physicality by dancing to wild reimagined grooves and 80s-style drum beats.

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