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-
Natir Puja: Tagore, Dance and Modernism
Facilitated by Aveek Sen and Vikram Iyengar
Aveek Sen
Aveek Sen is a writer and educator, working across literature, cinema, music and the other arts. He studied English literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and University College, Oxford, and taught at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He was the recipient of the 2009 Infinity Award for writing on photography, given by the International Center of Photography, New York. He was associate editor (editorial pages) of The Telegraph, Calcutta, where he wrote a column called "Art & Life". He has written extensively with artists like Dayanita Singh, Roni Horn, Moyra Davey, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and On Kawara.
Vikram Iyengar
Vikram Iyengar is a dancer, choreographer, theatre director, performing arts researcher and writer, arts manager and curator based in Calcutta, India. He is co-founder of the kathak-based performance company Ranan, and initiator of The Pickle Factory – a proposed venue for dance and movement practice and discourse.
Vikram’s range of work in India and abroad spans productions and workshops with dancers and actors, performance collaborations, research and curation projects for several arts bodies, and various organisational roles. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow (2013-2014), he was Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts (2017). He is one of four Asia Pacific participants in the first international cohort of the Arts Leaders programme run by the Australia Council for the Arts (2017-18). In 2015, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance.
This programme is in collaboration with the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation.
By registration only
For more details and registration, call 8910768318 or email
contact.picklefactory@gmail.com or visit
https://goo.gl/forms/36dllBSpZFSxKabv1
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It is advisable for participants to read Natir Puja by Rabindranath Tagore in the original or in translation.
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