Prathyasha
2019
INTRODUCTION
Three artists and three dance forms—Ottan Thullal, Bharatanatyam and Kathak—come together in a journey with myth, music and movement, combining elements of theatre, percussion and other allied forms. Through this confluence of art forms and artists and the journey we collectively undertake, the performance aims to uphold a certain awareness of our actions, of what we do with our lives and our art. What must change, and what needs to stay the same?
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CREDITS
Curator Leela Samson, Artists: Dheerendra Tiwary (Kathak), Sheejith Krishna (Bharatanatyam), Suresh Kaliyath (Ottan Thullal), Sound Projection: Rakesh Pazhedam, Lighting: Nambu Kumar Krishnan, Scale Small, Year of Commission 2019
Please Feel At Home
2019
INTRODUCTION
A woman is getting ready to welcome a young man, who has rented a room in her house—her son’s room. She feels uncomfortable that a stranger will be staying in this room and she is uncertain about what to say to him when he arrives. The man has an unusual name. This leads her to wonder about his identity. Who is he? Where does he come from? In time, her fears and anxieties bubble to the surface, exposing her latent prejudices and preconceptions about the ‘other’. Her distress and aversion erupt into a frenzy of rage and violence . . . when the young man arrives, hoping to be welcomed into her home. She was right: there is something unusual about him, something surprising, something, perhaps, eye-opening.
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CREDITS
Curated by Arundhati Nag, Adaptation, scenography & direction by Anmol Vellani, Actors S.S. Kalairaani, S. Santhakumar, Sound Sachin Gurjale, Light Bharavi, Sets & properties Rency Philip, Production management Aswin Varrier, Photography, surtitles & production assistance Mythili P., Tamil translations S. Ramakrishnan, Photography & videography Lekha Naidu, Produced by Serendipity Arts Foundation, Scale Small, Year of Commission 2019
Hanv Gara Asa
2019
INTRODUCTION
Home is where I learn to play.
Home is where I learn to dream.
Home is where I am.
Hanv Gara Asa
Hanv Gara Asa, is a play for early years, told through sounds, objects and images.
*For 3 – 5 year olds.
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CREDITS
Curated by Arundhati Nag, Directed by Sananda Mukhopadhyaya, Performed by Samiksha Sawant, Ariedon Gomes & Krishna Gawas, Original music by Kaizad Gherda, Produced by Spinning Stories, Co-produced by Serendipity Arts Foundation, Scale Small, Year of Commission 2019
Once Upon A Time
2019
INTRODUCTION
A choreographed performance blending multiple art forms of movement, dialogue, music, puppetry, illustration, and the performance tradition of Yakshagana—Once Upon a Time is a transformative experience, where dance artistes are supported by collaborators to narrate three familiar fairytales in an unfamiliar format—”Alice in Wonderland”, “Pinocchio,” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
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CREDITS
Curated by Mayuri Upadhya, Scenography by Sumant Jayakrishnan, Produced by Serendipity Arts Foundation, Light Design by Pushan Kripalani
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Choreography by Preethi Bharadwaj, Performed by Preethi Bharadwaj, Rohit Bhasi, Collaborator & Illustrated by Rohit Bhasi, Story by Lewis Carroll, Music by Hriday Goswami, Script by Vedarun Rajkumar, Property Designed by Nishanth Aravindakshan Costume Design by Shakthi Rai and Kushbu Manto, Recorded, mixed & mastered by Pranava Studios, Bangalore, Voice over by Varsha Samtania, Siddhanth Chandrashekar
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Performed by Shruti Suresh (Belle), Karthik Kudekallu (Prince and the Villager), Priyanka K Mohan (Beast), Narration by Shreya Deshpande, Sharat R Prabhath, Shruti Suresh, Music compilation & assistance by Sharat R Prabhath, Costume Design by Aloka D’souza and Nidhi Chauhan, Script & mentoring by Shashank Lakshmipathy, Concept & choreography by Shruti Suresh
PINOCCHIO
Devised & performed by Pia Bunglowala, Collaborator, maker & puppeteering by Gagan Kumar, Dramaturgy by Nisha Abdulla, Sound Design by Nikhil Nagaraj, Costume Design by Sneha & Sukhleen, SPECIAL THANKS TO Dhurii (for rehearsal space)
Scale Medium, Year of Commission 2019
On the Move
2019
INTRODUCTION
The exhibition battle scene is a celebration of the ethos of street dancing. Hip-hop, popping and locking, whacking, break, krump, B-boying and contouring are styles that will come together in a cypher accompanied by a beat boxer and a DJ. The third floor of a multi-level car park is chosen as an attempt to draw the audience into a more unique and intimate experience. Elaborating further on the street art tradition is a collaboration with a graffiti artiste.
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CREDITS
Curated by Mayuri Upadhya, Performed by Bboy Joon, Bgirl Jo, Cyclone, Divya Easwaran, Dj Ivan, Ibrahim badshah, Mekhola bose, Shane Benedict Mendes, Swaroop Kishen, Velu Kumar Selvarajan, Zuboo, Srilakshmi Muralidharan, Nikhil, Vineeth Kumar, Produced by Serendipity Arts Foundation, Scale Medium, Year of Commission 2019
On a Different Note
2019
INTRODUCTION
On a Different Note is imagined as an immersive theatrical experience through the sound of music.
We invite the audience to join us and let the power of the human voice move us both emotionally and physically as we travel through time and space. The project aims to traverse a sensorial landscape of sound that has been transported from its original context—a personal journey through five rooms; an intimate encounter with sound, music and silence.
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CREDITS
Curated by Atul Kumar, Directed by Nimi Ravindran and Vinod Ravindran, Music directed by Maria Meireles and Parvesh Java, Singers Aileen Carneiro, Arléne Coelho do Amaral, Elaine da Costa, Gabriella Naomi de Souza, Gaurangi, Inica Celeste Fernandes, Karen Fernandes, Kate D’Souza, Kim Ann Costa, Priyanka Diniz, Runa Távora Aggarwal,Sarah Caroline D’Souza, Shallu, Sheena Helen Pereira, Svetlana Pinto, Tabitha de Melo, Viveka de Melo e Granjo, Musicians Eshvita Menezes, Jasiel Peter, Joy Peter, Dancer Keya D’Souza, Lighting designer Jenny Pinto, Production manager Charulatha Dasappa, Miniature Set Design Rency Philip, Picture credits Richa Bhavanam.
Sounding Vanya
2019
INTRODUCTION
[1] “Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic – lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed – as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on talking, as it is in Tchekov, we need a very daring and alert sense of literature to make us hear the tune, and in particular those last notes which complete the harmony.” (Virginia Woolf )
[2] SOUND [v.1]: “to be audible, to produce vibrations affecting the ear,” early 13c. sounen, from Old French soner and Latin sonare, “to sound, make a noise.”
[3] SOUND [v.2]: “fathom, probe, measure the depth of,” mid-14c., from Old French sonder, from sonde “sounding line,” perhaps from the same Germanic source that yielded Old English sund, “water, sea.”
[4] ‘Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts,’ an 1898 play by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904).
[5] Leo Tolstoy: “I went to see ‘Vanya,’ and I was appalled. Where’s the drama? The play treads water.”
[6] And Maxim Gorky: “One can’t clearly express what this play calls up in one’s soul, but I felt as
I watched its characters as if I were being sawn in half by a dull saw. Its teeth go straight to the heart, and they make the heart clench, groan, cry out. I feel it to be something terrible. Your ‘Uncle Vanya’ is an entirely new form of dramatic art, a hammer with which you strike at the empty skulls of the public.”
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CREDITS
Curated by Atul Kumar, Directed by Rehaan Engineer, Actors Aarti Aney, Abir Abrar, Anna Ador, Ira Dubey, Kalki Koechlin, Meher Mistry, Puja Sarup, Director’s Assistant Vrinda Kacker, Original Music Guy Hershberg, Original Light Design Arghya Lahiri, Assistant Light Design Gurleen Judge, Costume Design Nakul Sen, Executive Producer Sachin Kamani, Production Hussain Zaidi.
PHOTO-COPY
INTRODUCTION
Photo-Copy is a tale about a blemished family of 4 living individuals and the hope of the existence of a ‘late’ member. An irreparable loss of the head of the family: a husband and father leave the rest in a state of uncertainty.
The eldest sibling, Satyaprakash is hit by certain questions in his mind about his own identity, questions of being comfortable with the fading memories of his father and how he can’t recognise himself with his people anymore… Where is his emotional responsibility towards his family?
On his father’s 15th death anniversary he goes back to his nest to find out and re-live the fading memories. What now unfolds is not what the family would have desired for but it is undeniably needed for their survival. Will this turmoil leave Satyaprakash’s mother, brother, and sister on the edge of their lives again or will the family be able to redefine their state of uncertainty and find a new chapter through it.
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CREDITS
Curated by Atul Kumar, Written & Directed by Niketan Sharma, Actors Rasika Agashe Chakori Dwivedi Dheer Hira Abhishek Chauhan, Assistant Director Shivam Dev Singh, Sound Pruthu Parab , Lights Sachin Lele , Production Anmol Oberoi , Faizal Sheikh, Set Design Noel Tauro .
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