River Raga
2019
INTRODUCTION
A sunset cruise along the river Mandovi with a series of curated classical music concerts.
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CREDITS
2016
Curated by: Shubha Mudgal, Sound Engineer: Nitin Joshi, Artists: Omkar Dadarkar (Hindustani classical Vocal), Raya Korgaonkar (Harmonium), Mayank Bedekar (Tabla)
2017
Curated by: Shubha Mudgal, Sound Engineer: Nitin Joshi, Artists: Indrani Mukherjee (Hindustani classical Vocal), Apurba Mukherjee (Tabla), Raya Korgaonkar (Harmonium), Adrian McNeil (Sarod), Apurba Mukherjee (Tabla), Ramakant Gaikwad (Hindustani classical Vocal), Pandurang Pawar (Tabla), Raya Korgaonkar (Harmonium)
2018
Curated by: Shubha Mudgal, Sound Engineer: Nitin Joshi, Artists: Ashwani Shankar (Shehnai), Sanjeev Shankar (Shehnai), Accompanist: Ojas Adhiya (Tabla), Dhanashree Pandit Rai (Vocal), Accompanists: Kalinath Mishra (Tabla), Niranjan Lele (Harmonium), Aayush Mohan (Sarod), Lakshay Mohan (Sitar), Accompanist: Mayank Bedekar (Tabla), Anuradha Kuber (Vocal), Accompanists: Mayank Bedekar (Tabla), Saumitra Kshirsagar (Harmonium), Aditya Khandwe (Vocal), Accompanists: Mayank Bedekar (Tabla), Raya Korgaokar (Harmonium)
2019
Curated by: Aneesh Pradhan, Sound Engineer: Nitin Joshi, Artists: Chintan Upadhyay (Vocal) Sukhad Munde (Pakhawaj), Ranjani Ramachandran (Vocal), Raya Korgaonkar (harmonium), Mayank Bedekar (Tabla), Vinayak Chittar (Sitar), Mayank Bedekar (Tabla), Jayteerth Mevundi (Vocal), Raya Korgaonkar (harmonium), Uday Kulkarni (Tabla), Arnab Chakrabarty (Sarod), Mayank Bedekar (Tabla)
Serendipity Soundscapes Presents The Maverick Playlist
2019
INTRODUCTION
Serendipity Soundscapes is a unique initiative by Serendipity Arts Festival. Our music curators are invited to bring together the unique sounds of the subcontinent in an extraordinary evening.
Maverick Playlist celebrates unfettered musical exchange. Drawing on diverse musical ideas, techniques, styles and songwriting both from India and from other parts of the world, this specially curated and composed compilation of songs is unorthodox and hybrid in its approach.
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CREDITS
Curated by: Aneesh Pradhan, Vocalists: Omkar Patil, Priyanka Barve, Musicians: Harshit Jain, Nishant Nagar, Kirti Prabar Das, Srijan Mahajan, Nikhil Malik, Purav Jagad, Siddharth Padiyar and Avadhoot Phadke, Sound Arrangement: Srijan Mahajan, Nikhil Malik, Sound Design: Nitin Joshi, Light Design: Harshavardhan Pathak, Consultant: Shubha Mudgal: Sutradhaars: Amba Suhasini K. Jhala, Anirudh Nair
Scale Large, Year of Commission 2018
Bandish Antaakshari
2019
INTRODUCTION
Bandish, loosely translated as composition, acts as the seed-idea for melodic and rhythmic elaboration in various genres of vocal and instrumental Hindustani music. It is one of the tangible elements that not only represents the aesthetics of different gharanas (literally household) or traditional schools of music, but in fact forms a vital part of the body of knowledge handed down through generations in an essentially oral tradition. For these reasons, a rich collection of such compositions is crucial in Hindustani music pedagogy and performance, and has always been considered an important inheritance for those seeking to pursue music as a profession.
Bandish Antaakshari, a performance-based game, portrays compositions from the Hindustani art music tradition using Antaakshari, a popular and engaging recreational pastime that has usually revolved around Indian film songs. Typically, a player in this game has to present a few lines of a song challenging the next player to sing another song with its text beginning with the final syllable of the line that was sung last. Bandish Antaakshari did not only follow this conventional format, but also highlighted Hindustani musical forms like khayal, thumri, and dadra, composed in various raags or melodic structures and set to different taals or rhythmic cycles.
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CREDITS
2018
Curated by Aneesh Pradhan, Vocalists: Bhavik Mankad, Rutuja Lad, Deepika Bhagwat, Saurabh Kadgaonkar, Aditya Mohan Khandwe, Rupesh Gawas, Nivedita Hattangadi and Anuradha Kuberm, Accompanists: Mayank Bedekar (Tabla) and Prasad Gawas (Harmonium), Sound Design: Nitin Joshi, Antaakshari Hosts: Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan, Time and Scorekeeper: Yashwant Kanolkar
2019
Curator and Presenter: Aneesh Pradhan, Co–presenter: Aditya Khandwe, Vocalists: Anuja Zokarkar, Dhananjay Hegde, Kedar Kelkar, Prajakta Marathe Bicholkar, Raagini Deoley, Ranjani Ramachandran, Soumya Ullal Kantak. Vishal Moghe
Scale Medium, Year of Commission 2018 & 2019
Dhamaal
2019
INTRODUCTION
Dhamaal is a celebration of drumming traditions from India. It represents India’s cultural diversity as reflected through her music, particularly through percussion traditions. For several centuries, these traditions have run parallel, have intersected or have worked in isolation. Significantly, they have not threatened each other and have in fact lived in harmony. Drummers in Dhamaal come from various parts of the country to weave a tapestry of rhythm with other musicians. While the focus of Dhamaal is on percussion traditions, the performance is equally grounded in melody and song-text. \
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CREDITS
Dhamaal 2017
Curator and Artistic Director: Aneesh Pradhan, Composers: Aneesh Pradhan and Shubha Mudgal for compositions other than those from traditional repertoire (Percussion elaboration by performers), Lyrics: Traditional song-texts including verses by Kabir, Charandas, Dharamdas and Amir Khusrau, Performers: Rangamel led by Kanta Gaude and Nitin Mardolkar (Goa), Taal: Vadya Pathak led by Parikshit Phand (Pune, Maharashtra), Anjika Manipuri Dance Group led by K. Ratan Singh (Manipur), Shahir Azad Naikawadi Kala Pathak (Kolhapur, Maharashtra), Haridas Shinde and Rajendra Baghe and group (Alandi, Maharashtra), The Dhol Drummers of Rajasthan, produced and presented by Jodhpur RIFF (Rajasthan), Tabla players: Abhimanyu Herlekar, Dhaivat Mehta, Siddharth Padiyar, and Vighnesh Kamath (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Harmonium players: Dnyaneshwar Sonavane and Purav Jagad (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Vocalists: Shubha Mudgal, Shweta Deshpande, Upagna Pandya, Shantanu Herlekar, Girish Poriya (Navsari, Gujarat) Script and narration: Gopal Datt, Scenography: Sumant Jayakrishnan, Sound engineer: Nitin Joshi, Lighting designer: Harshavardhan Pathak, Artiste Management: Nandu Nimbalkar, Stage managers: Venkat Narayanan and Yeshwant Kanolkar, Scale Large, Year of Commission, 2017
Dhamaal 2018
Curator: Aneesh Pradhan, Sound Design: Nitin Joshi, Light Design: Harshavardhan Pathak, Sutradhaar: Gopal Datt, Performers: Gokul Chandra Das (Team Leader), Mahadev Das, Nipa Mondal, Banti Das, Puja Biswas, Sunita Das, Sangita Das, Piyali Mondal, Dhaivat Mehta, Siddharth Padiyar, Dnyaneshwar Sonawane, Vighnesh Kamath, Purav Jagad, Ashok Shinde, Abhimanyu Herlekar, Shantanu, Herlekar, Upagna Pandya, Shweta Deshpande, Nandakumar (Edakkya), Dineshan Warriar (Chenda), Kalamandalam Vinesh (Mizhav), Kalanilayam, Sreejith (Madhalam), Triprayar Rameshan Marar (Thimila), Santosh (Elathalam), Vinu K, Unnikrishnan, Bhargav Kamble, Namdeo Desai, Yeshudas Desai, Ramdas Desai, Haridas Shinde, Ajinath Shinde, Bhavesh Jadhav, Machhindra Babasaheb, Pandurang Uttam Shinde, Girish Poriya, Chandrakumar.a.s, Prasanna K.r., Chunchaiah, Prasad.p, Sidhappaji.k, Prashanth.b, Venkatesh.c, Manukumara.g.s, N.surjit Singh, S.gobardhon Singh, Konthoujam Ratan Singh, T.nanao Singh, N.surjit Singh, S. Gobardhon Singh, Konthoujam Ratan Singh, Chanan Khan, Swaroop Khan, Satar Khan, Pape Khan, Scale Large, Year of Commission, 2018
Boundary Conditions
2019
INTRODUCTION
Boundary Conditions looks at igniting an experience that is created by placing moving bodies in and against an architectural space. The aim is to capture the variety of episodes/phases/ stages the palace has been through over the course of time. Both the artists, i.e. the dancers and the sound designers, are looking at ways to manifest the essence of the building and the people who occupied it over time. Finding historical turning points and the role that the building has played in different movement as a witness. This is the guide for a quest to create moments of performance, inspired by the ideologies, political philosophy and roles that the building has accommodated in some form, still withstanding the test of times. The idea is to imagine a meeting of all this information a movement expression framework.
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CREDITS
Curated by Ranjana Dave Choreography Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy Performers Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy and Manju Sharma Music Abhijeet Tambe and Rahul Ranganath Scale Medium Year of Commission 2018
Look Left, Turn Right
2019
INTRODUCTION
Look Left, Turn Right is a site-specific intervention that questions the fine line between functionality and performativity in movement. Set up as a series of structured improvisations, Look Left, Turn Right is performed at busy traffic intersections, thus pulling dance out of a formal setting into an everyday public space that is accessed by all. The performers engage with the site in real time as a first encounter, thus setting up relationships between a dynamic passing audience, and the space they temporarily inhabit.
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CREDITS
Curated by Ranjana Dave Performers Aditi Dave, Akshata Joshi, Amit Singh Thakur, Jimit Thaker, Mayank Yadav, Pooja Karkera, Shruti Maria Datar and Tanvi Karekar Choreography Avantika Bahl Scale Medium Year of Commission 2018
Tanashah
2019
INTRODUCTION
Tanashah, a solo by Navtej Johar, explores extremes. Based on the jail diaries of the revolutionary Bhagat Singh, particularly his essay Why I am an Atheist, it examines the resolve of a young man to walk to the gallows with searing clarity, un-sublimated by religious doctrine or idealist philosophy. The impending moment of his youthful death almost seems to embolden him, propel him unto that final moment with a fierce veracity. Juxtaposed against this fierceness of a man tempting death, will be a padam, an amorous song, that talks of a lover’s unbearable longing and unacceptable separation from his beloved.
Both the narratives—the powerful ardour of a revolutionary and the unbridled desire of an impassioned youth—dark, masculine, uncompromising, and almost heckling in nature, will be somatically interwoven in search of poised resolve in the finality of awaited death/ consummation. With the twin claims of unequivocal freedom and pleasurable repose or ‘sukha’, playing at the core of these two full-blooded expressions respectively, the aim of the work will be to bring both courage and desire on the same register.
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CREDITS
Curated by Ranjana Dave Concept, Choreography and Performance Navtej Johar Vocals Madan Gopal Singh and K. Venkateshwaran Lighting and Stage Design Anuj Chopra Costumes Diwas Gill Assistant Simrat Dugal Sound Engineer Deepak Samson Photography Anshuman Sen Scale Small Year of Commission 2018
To be Danced – In Rooms
2019
INTRODUCTION
Explored in two formats, the two parts of the title run parallel lives as live performance and video installation. To Be Danced… is a solo that builds a relationship between a live performer, her moving image and the patterns of attention in a live performative setting.
In Rooms continues from To Be Danced in its exploration of body in more familiar, less abstract ways. The location, rhythm and humour of the daily chore or action draw attention to the spaces you occupy and the ones you imagine you could.
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CREDITS
Curated by Ranjana Dave Choreography Anoushka Kurien Music Darbuka Siva Film Sharan Devkar Shankar and Deepa Vaswani Light and Projection Raymond Selvaraj Production Assistance Priyanka Khanna Costume Anaka Narayanan Scale Medium Year of Commission 2018
Serendipity Soundscapes Presents Anti Musicals
2018
INTRODUCTION
Classic musicals presented like you’ve never heard before! Serendipity Soundscapes is an initiative by Serendipity Arts Festival. Our music curators are invited to bring together the unique sounds of the subcontinent in an extraordinary evening. Anti Musicals brings together iconic songs in an extraordinary presentation.
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CREDITS
Curated by Sneha Khanwalkar, Keyboards and Music Direction by Zubin Balaporia, Vocals Usha Uthup, Joe Alvarez and Amruta Subhash, Vocals & Electronics Pulpy Shilpy, Drums Andrew Kanga, Bass Sheldon Dsilva, Guitar Sanjay Divecha, Violin Kushmita Biswakarma, Viola Dielle Julienne Braganza, Cello Magdalena Ewa Sas
A Doubtful Gaze at Uber at Midnight
2018
INTRODUCTION
Saket, a self-proclaimed ‘anti-national’ has called an Uber to reach home at midnight. Saket gives directions to the Uber driver, but the driver is understanding what he is saying. Meanwhile, Suna, a self-proclaimed ‘urban Naxal’ is caught watching pornography at Saket’s house, and the Narcotics Department has discovered the marijuana plants at Saket’s house. As midnight gets metaphorically darker, we realise that the roads Saket was trying to describe never existed. Perhaps the Uber driver doesn’t exist either.
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CREDITS
Curated by Atul Kumar, Written by Dharmakirti Sumant, Directed by Alok Rajwade, Actor Siddharth Menon, Lights by Satyajeet Shobha Shreeram, Production Manager Ravi Chaudhari, Stage Management Parna Pethe, Rohit Petkar.
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