Whether you are a dance practitioner, audience, scholar, critic or student, how to read and respond to dance and movement-based performance is a constant concern. How do you make meaning of a work of art, informed by a sense of history, personal or collective experience, or some other lens? This programme addresses precisely these questions through playful and provocative, inventive, intuitive and interrogative participatory processes – much like how artists create their work. Led by a range of facilitators and with inputs from guest speakers, the series will invite and inspire participants to perceive closely, think critically, and create meaning that reaches beyond personal opinions and enters the realm of ideas that art – by its nature – imagines and inhabits.
Module 1
THE PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNIQUE OF AMERICAN MODERN DANCE THROUGH THE PIONEERING WORK OF MARTHA GRAHAM, ALVIN AILEY, AND MERCE CUNNINGHAM
By Ranjita Karlekar
- What are the root philosophies of American Modern Dance? How were they a response to the times and to New York?
- What ideas of dance aesthetic and technique did they move away from, and what defining character and technique did they develop?
- How did they create an interdisciplinary way of working across the arts?
- What is the legacy? What continues, what ruptures (Postmodern Dance)?
- Can we think of similar dance movements in India that we could call Modern in our context?
Ranjita Karlekar, modern dance teacher and choreographer for over three decades, takes us through these questions through an open-ended discussion process, illustrated with archive videos, articles, photographs, demonstrations, and movement exercises.
Ranjita Karlekar
Trained in bharatnatyam, kathakali and modern dance, Ranjita Karlekar is a teacher of modern dance, ballet and jazz, and a resource person at two community programmes. During her postgraduate studies in Dance Ethnology at UCLA, she also trained in West African and jazz dance. She has extensive experience in producing dance and theatre performances as well as dance and music festivals, and choreographing for schools, universities and professional companies. She is Network Chair for Research and Documentation of the West Bengal chapter of the World Dance Alliance, India.
This programme is in collaboration with the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation.
By registration only.
Limited place available.
For more details and regsitration, call +91 9007428375 or email
contact.picklefactory@gmail.com
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