Departing from the notion of invisibility as in Augusto Boal’s invisible theatre and social choreography, the Goethe-Institut initiated a process-based art laboratory project for performative arts in India and Indonesia.
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Departing from the notion of invisibility as in Augusto Boal’s
invisible theatre and social choreography, the Goethe-Institut initiated a process-based art laboratory project for performative arts in Indonesia and India.
After a first meeting at Tanzplattform in March 2022 in Berlin, Indonesian
Garasi Performance Institute and Indian choreographer,
Mandeep Raikhy jointly developed “
Invisible Dance” as a platform for artists to explore invisible connections between social spaces or experiences and dance in many different ways. They invited seven artists and art collectives from different rural or decentralized spaces in Indonesia and India with specific context-based research ideas to join the platform.
Together, they explored questions and alternative point of views with regards to contemporary dance practices – what is choreography and what could be choreographed? What kind of movement could be regarded as/is dance? Who is visible and who is invisible? Who determines what and from which position?
On
November 15th 2022, the choreographic projects groups will share work-in-progress presentation and give further insights into their research process and findings.
- Komunitas KAHE investigates festivals and festive gatherings of the population in Maumere, Flores, as social choreography. Their focus are three groups involved in every party, mama-mama (mothers) who prepare the dishes, anak kolong (party crashers) and operator (a man appointed to be responsible for the songs throughout a party).
Instagram – Komunitas KAHE
- Tilas Lembâna by Lembâna Artgroecosystem is an attempt to map specific spatial and temporal dimensions of their hometown in Madura, East Java. The group aims also to create a guide book and a documentary titled “24 Hour in Lembana.”
Instagram – Lembâna Artgroecosystem
- Enji Sekar, Puri Senjani Apriliani and Eka Wahyuni focus on choreographic observations relating to the four senses of hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling in Demangan market in Yogyakarta. Beside a documentary, the group organize their findings as layers of maps. The actual map of Pasar Demangan will be combined with different sensory maps and create a new visibility for those invisible people and things.
Instagram – Enji Sekar
Instagram – Eka Wahyuni
Instagram – Puri Senjani Apriliani
- Abhijeet/Moodzi and Srilakshmi’s project takes place in different pockets of the city Ahmedabad and its public spaces. They engage with different demographics and witness how an experiment like this may respond to their socio-political context.
Instagram – Abhijeet/Moodzi
- Lapdiang A. Syiem’s work is an exploration of the Khasi folk narrative of “U Sier Lapalang,” a story of the stag who climbs up from the plains of what we know as present-day Bangladesh into the Khasi Hills only to be captured and killed by hunters. His mother also climbs up in search of her son and encounters the kill. She lets out a dirge, a lamentation which, as they say, is a sound that has taught the Khasi people how to mourn and grieve.
Instagram – Lapdiang A. Syiem
- Rituparna Pal is a Bharathanatyam dancer based in Chennai. Bharatanatyam has a violent, casteist history of appropriation which rarely finds a place in the annals of institutional history. In the early 20th century, the hereditary practitioners of the dance were criminalised for their profession and privileged-caste dancers entered the stage in the name of "revival" of the art form. Rituparna aims to acknowledge this history through her work and develop an anti-caste Bharatanatyam practice.
Instagram – Rituparna Pal
- The Gram Art Project Collective is a group of women living in rural environment, average Indian women, so they say. Together they create a durational performance consisting of different ways of sharing their memories, hopes, dreams, secrets, and burdens.
Instagram – Gram Art Project
For the complete project description of seven projects developed through “Invisible Dance,” please click the following link:
Project Description – India and Indonesia
Garasi Performance Institute
The Garasi Performance Institute (GPI) sees itself as an open platform for interdisciplinary artists and cultural professionals who address different performance methods in the sense of an aesthetic and social practice.
Mandeep Raikhy
Mandeep Raikhy is a dance practitioner based in New Delhi. He trained at Trinity Laban and worked with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, London, for several years. Mandeep has been committed to developing a supportive environment for contemporary dance in India through several initiatives.
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