[Reader-list] Announcement>>Kathak in the City

[Iram Ghufran]

Ashavari Majumdar Dance Company, supported by Sarai CSDS

presents

CITY


7 pm, Friday, Oct 29, 2010
Max Mueller Bhawan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Delhi


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A response to the Indian city -this piece reveals the fluidity of the 
space between daily and ‘extra-daily’ movements, between dance and 
‘non-dance’. Contemporary urban Indian narratives, characters map the 
relationship between rhythm, movement and text using Kathak technique.

Choreographer’s note:

For this production my movement research was scourced from observing 
‘daily’ movements- to evoke the casual chaos of Indian city streets as 
part of the City as Studio Fellowship with Sarai CSDS.The most exciting 
aspect for me has been discovering the fluid nature of the space between 
‘dance’ and ‘non-dance’. This process allowed me to explore and play in 
that space.

Kathak technique trains you to improvise with rhythm and movement and 
interpret text in multiple ways. This piece extends these techniques to 
explore certain narratives and characters. It has been challenging to 
collaborate with dancers with radically different movement vocabularies. 
They contributed stories and the piece achieved its present form in an 
unexpected, organic way.




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