Workshops, Performances and Dance-Film over two weekends!
March Dance 2023 - Season 5

A joint project of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai & Basement 21

Fri, 17.03.2023 -
Sun, 26.03.2023
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium

A joint project of the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai & Basement 21

As with all its projects, this 5th edition of March Dance in 2023 raises the question of ‘the contemporary’ and how to define it. At times, this question is raised through views from the outside. Sometimes it comes as a response to the ‘tradition’ we are often surrounded by.
 
No matter from which perspective we arrive, this sometimes sometimes-loaded term, the aesthetic and politic it represents, requires constant debate and rethinking before we can possibly even conceive of a context for viewing - a viewing that can be not merely informed, but interrogative. One in which references and connections between the arts and across cultures can be made.

March Dance 2023 raises the question and from a range of differing perspectives challenges our understanding of dance-making while promoting enquiry into the creative process as a whole.
In a coming together of improvisation, performance and research, this edition of the festival seeks to make the questions around dance and the body more pertinent to how we locate ourselves as critical beings, constantly redefining our relationships to history, politics and practice.

March Dance 2023 aims to bring together a series of performances, workshops and discussions that address the following questions:

• How can artistic Reconstruction become a tool to reframe our position with regard to histories?
• What is the role of Improvisation in building a dynamic language of the body that is constantly evolving new knowledges?
• How does a specific Site inscribe itself on the body and affect its aesthetics and politics. 
• Why is Interdisciplinarity important in nurturing the growth of artistic practices and their environments?

March Dance 2023 invites artists and researchers from within and across borders to Chennai in March 2023 to engage with these questions, to reflect upon what constitutes the body’s relationship to a place and its people.

March Dance 2023 - Season 5 – Schedule

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