MARCH DANCE 2020
Performance ‘The Long and Short of It’
27 March 2020 7 pm Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Conversation with Poorna Swami
28 March 2020 5 pm Goethe-Institut Library
The work
'The Long and Short of It' is a durational sound and performance installation choreographed by Bangalore-based artist Poorna Swami.
Each body must act within a set of rules, while also confronting residues of previously occupied lands. Audiences are invited to enter, move around, exit and re-enter whenever they like. The choreography, sound and design have been collaboratively created with Marcel Zaes.
In March Dance 2020, 'The Long and Short of It' will be performed by Dayita Nereyeth, Ronita Mookerji and Prashant More with Sujay Saple on lights.
Artist’s bio
Poorna Swami is an independent choreographer, dancer, and writer.
She writes on arts, culture, literature, and politics. At the age of seven, Poorna began training in the classical Indian dance form, Bharatanatyam, before extending her training to contemporary dance and post-modern techniques. Her choreographic works frequently cross disciplines and reflect her interest in converging formal investigations with conceptual concerns. Poorna has performed her choreography in and around New York City, at the Wassaic Project Festival, Theater for the New City, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her most recent works have shown in different festivals, galleries and performance spaces around India, such as 1 Shanthi Road Studio/Gallery, Chatterjee & Lal, G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture and Serendipity Arts Festival. For the 2017 edition of the Attakkalari India Biennial, Poorna served as the editor of Attakkalari’s online dance magazine, Ligament, and facilitated the festival’s Writing on Dance Laboratory. She was a recipient of the 2018 danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival.
Poorna holds a BA, summa cum laude (highest honours), in Dance-Theatre and English from Mount Holyoke College (USA). She claims to live in Bangalore, though is often absconding.
Credits
Photos: Ajay Nair
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