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Max Mueller Bhavan | India Chennai

Prana - Reconstruction Workshop

Workshop|Prana (1990) 13th – 18th & 20th – 24th March 2023

  • SPACES , Chennai

  • English
  • All are welcome

Prana_March Dance 2023 © Goethe Institut Chennai

‘The dance explores the relatedness of breath and movement a journey towards recovery of breath. The choreography is based on the multi-centred space concept of navagraha iconography. The work is an attempt to return to dance - and to our beleaguered lives - it's lost breath.’ Chandralekha  

It feels not just urgent but imperative to revisit this specific work at this time. Yet, how does one 'reconstruct' or even investigate the corporeal materials of a choreographer who wanted to leave no legacy? This workshop for March dance 2023, will ask questions and look at principles, in the spirit of Chandra herself. A collective looking back without a sense of nostalgia or sentiment. But rather out of a need to take a hard look at who we are as dancers today. The 10-day workshop will be followed by a public sharing at Mandala in Spaces- where the work was originally conceived and created.

About the facilitators
Meera Krishnamurthy, Krishna Devanandan and Padmini Chettur each worked with Chandralekha for a decade or more, and have performed the work Prana. In very individual ways, the questions that Chandralekha's work held continue to echo in their practice, pedagogy and lives.

Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3XxB0RH
Maximum no. of participants allowed - 20