[Reader-list] "Tableau Vivant" on "Mahabharata Miniature" (Karachi, Pakistan)

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Toronto based artists and graduates of National College of Arts (Lahore, Pakistan), Tazeen Qayyum and Faisal Anwar are joining hands to create a "tableau vivant", an animation of a painting that combines seventeenth-century South Asian miniature painting with the nineteenth-century European tradition of recreating paintings as theatrical perfomances replete with elaborate sets and costumes.
 
The painting chosen by them is a ' traditional Miniature painting from the Kangra Tradition'. It depicts a scence from the Mahabharata where "Draupadi and her five husbands are at the end of their exile and going to return to their land"
 
Qayyum and Anwar have been working with third-year Fine Arts students from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture as well as Babar Sheikh, who's band is providing experimental music for the show.
 
Titled "A Feast in Exile", the 'tableau vivant'  is being performed at Karachi's Alliance Francaise on 4th and 5th Nov, 2009. 
 
Above given details taken from Text and voice at:
http://animation.dawn.com/live_art/
 
More on "tableau vivant" at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_vivant
 
Kshmendra