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Max Mueller Bhavan | Indien Chennai

March Dance 2025

Films and Discussions|– A festival of contemporary performance

  • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium, Chennai

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10th March, 6.30pm @ Alliance Francaise of Madras
Poetic and Sonic structures 

A conversation with musician/composer Maarten Visser around interpretation and the sound-image relationship based on a viewing of:

  • Turtle Dreams by Meredith Monk
  • Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G Major by Saburo Teshigawara
  • Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters

Film* and lecture
12th March, 6.30 pm @ Alliance Francaise of Madras
Body and History, a dynamic relation:
perspectives on Kanhailal’s language of theatre


A viewing of excerpts from PEBET, a landmark performance created by Heisnam Kanhailal (Kalakshetra  Manipur) and a lecture delivered on 50 years of PEBET by Professor Anuradha Kapur. Session moderated by dramaturg and visual artist, Pravin Kannanur.
*Film and lecture courtesy Kalakshetra Manipur and Nicky Chandam.

 

15th March, 11.00 - 1.00 pm @ Alliance Francaise of Madras
BODY AND SITE: Screening of Dance films  

A Slightly Curving Place (26’40”)  Padmini Chettur and Maarten Visser

A transplanted archaeological site in Anupu is both the subject and object of this film. Within it, a single body is lost in scale to the vast landscape or filling the frame to propose itself. The lines, textures, and colours of the site come together to form a language that almost draws movement. There is a density of physicality that allows the stillness of the space to remain undisturbed, and yet appear palpably alive.

SEDIMENT (13’44”) Preethi Athreya and Vijay Boothalingam

Performer and choreographer Preethi Athreya and filmmaker Vijay Boothalingam come together to explore the salt pans of Marakkanam (Tamil Nadu) and reflect on the materiality of the place and its imprint on the body. In the encounter of earth, water and salt, the body is positioned to challenge its own power and stability, and to think, perhaps, about what we can consider eternal or transitory.

AROUND THE CORNER (GOA) (35’10”)  Davis Freeman

Around the corner (Goa) by performance artist Davis Freeman is a reflection on the multiple worlds happening simultaneously across the city of Panjim in Goa. It’s a dance that uses the city as its inspiration but whose abstract narrative is pushed forward by the relationship between two protagonists and their encounters with each other on the streets. With two screens we create the illusion of multiple street corners across the city. This film is an open door to create new connections from the first cries of the crows at sunrise to the crashing of the waves at sundown. Through the two characters, the life of a city exposes itself with its many faces of work, leisure, faith, duty, wonder, chaos and beauty, all at once interrupting each other and occasionally walking hand in hand.

Film & Discussion
17th March, 6.30 pm @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium
A Quest to Humanize, Chandralekha  
Drought and Rain, Ea Sola 

In the early 90's two of Asia's most important choreographers met at a women's festival in Germany.
look at their work and the conversation led by Padmini Chettur.

19th March, 6.30 pm @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium
I am a Demon, Pichet Klunchun  

Isadora Duncan, Jerome Bel

How have contemporary choreographers employed dramaturgy to frame narratives of the past? Two seminal works from a Thai and a French choreographer through whom we'll think about ways in which collaboration and knowledge sharing might shift the nature of practice.

21st March, 6.30 pm @ Goethe-Institut Auditorium
DANCE AND DISABILITY  
An introduction into the work of tanzbar bremen  and the Candoco Dance Company.

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