Curated by Atul Kumar
Created in 2016 in response to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized sexual intercourse against the heteronormatively defined ‘order of nature’ in India for over 150 years, before it was finally scrapped by the Supreme Court of India in September 2018, Queen-size is a choreographic exploration that takes the form of a detailed study of the intimacy between two men. The duet was initially triggered by Nishit Saran’s article titled ‘Why My Bedroom Habits Are Your Business’, first published in the Indian Express in January 2000
Agent Provocateur is a dance-theatre performance exploring the effects that a climate of growing intolerance has on the body and its impulses. The body is the site for both- sharing a personal response and for pondering the collective anxious. Conflict, humor and contradiction provide the turf for resistance and negotiation. Choreographed as a series of episodes with two performers and a live musician.
Curated by Atul Kumar
Master Tusk is a young boy, who has been given a new head- an elephant’s head. Confused and bewildered, he finds himself lost in the forest, where danger lurks at every turn. He encounters a motley couple- Makadi (spider) and Moork (poacher), a clumsy duo in search of a big-ticket ransom. They kidnap Master Tusk, but their scheme goes awry when a prophecy is revealed and changes everything.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
A person, a place or a thing or much more? Join a fascinating journey with wool in Oool, where the performer takes you through discoveries with this versatile material along with music, movement, play and madness!
Curated by Arundhati Nag
The play explores the representation of the feminine within the male-dominated practice of Yakshagana. What happens when a woman enters the professional space of a form performed by men for the last 800 years? Drawing from research and personal experience, the performance imagines a reversal of roles in the popular Yakshagana plot of ‘Draupadi Vastrapaharana’.
Choreographed by Avantika Bahl
Say, What? focusses on the interaction between two people who slide between using and abandoning codified language. As the audience encounters various conversations that are set up in space using sign language as a point of entry, the role of gesture is re-interpreted and demystified within the realm of communication. By lending itself to abstract proportions, this piece opens up a world of meaning making that is both embodied and visceral in nature.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
Dinner is at 8’ uses steel utensils as its central object of play. While steel utensils work as a sensory medium through the play of sight and sound for the very young audiences, they also metaphorically allow the creators of the play, to think through the concept of the “everyday.”
Curated by Atul Kumar
At SAF this year, apart from the established and more formal theatre venues, we wish to bring theatre into the homes of individuals who are as passionate about this art form as the artist themselves. We want to bring these works to an intimate environment, where the informality and warmth of a lived space lends its own distinctive character and experiential qualities to the performance. These performances will take place for small audiences through October and November, with the following production to take place during the Festival in December.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
This performance with puppets, masks, shadow puppets and materials looks at the Mahabharata as a dynamic narrative which has evolved over a few thousand years through the sung verses of Togalu Gombeyatta’s Sillakeyata Mahabharta and remains relevant in the new search of contemporary puppeteers.
Curated by Atul Kumar
This play is inspired by the stories of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), an early Soviet era absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. Kharms was often incarcerated by the Stalinist regime for his unconventional and rebellious ways. He is said to have starved to an anonymous death in the psychiatric ward of a Soviet hospital after being arrested in 1942.
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