Performance: a male ant has straight antennae

A collaborative performance by Indian choreographer Mandeep Raikhy, Swiss light designer Jonathan O'Hear and Japanese musician Yasuhiro Morinaga.

A collaborative performance by Indian choreographer Mandeep Raikhy, Swiss light designer Jonathan O'Hear and Japanese musician Yasuhiro Morinaga.

Date: 13 June 2013 
Time: 7:30 pm 
Venue: Kamani Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi 
Entry: Tickets available on Book My Show or 
at the venue on 12 & 13 June 2013

Synopsis: 
a male ant has straight antennae - exploring notions of masculanity Choreography: Mandeep Raikhy / IndiaLighting Design: Jonathan O'Hear / SwitzerlandSound Score: Yasuhiro Morinaga / Japan a male ant has straight antennae is an ensemble piece that investigates physicality of the body that resides within the wide spectrum of masculinities- ranging from hyper-masculinity to effeminacy. The piece will look at the notion of masculinity through the lenses of movement, relationships, games and touch. 

Mandeep Raikhy is a Delhi-based dance artist. After finishing a BA (Hons) Degree in Dance Theatre at Laban, London, in 2002, Mandeep worked with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company as a company dancer for many years. In 2010-11, he toured with his first full-length work, Inhabited Geometry, to various cities across the country.

Jonathan O'Hear After receiving his diploma in Video and Film Production, from the Vancouver Film School and Columbia Academy, Vancouver, Jonathan O'Hear returned to Geneva and worked as a sound and lights operator, and then as lighting and video designer. He then moved to Brussels where he continued lighting design and consequently worked as an independent multimedia designer. Jonathan now lives in Geneva and has worked for choreographers such as Foofwa D'Imobilité (Neopost Ahrrrt), Rebecca Spinetti (Cobalt) and director, Georges Guereiro (Baraka cie) on all their productions. Jonathan has been the lighting and video designer for over a hundred productions in New York, Geneva, Paris and Brussels in venues such as Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dance New Amsterdam, Association de la Danse Contemporaine, Bercy, Le théâtre des Amandiers, Palexpo, La Comédie de Genève, le Botanique, le Théâtre Varia and many others. He has also been the director of photography for a dozen short movies and music and sports video clips.

Of late, Jonathan has been working on design and production of interactive video for live performances and the development of a video compression system for low bandwidth. He has been experimenting with the use of new technologies and human interference such as generating an organic form of light movement and using a track pad to move and reshape it live during performance. Today he lives in Switzerland and works primarily as a lighting designer for the performing arts.

Yasuhiro Morinaga is a Japanese sound designer and music director and is known in the Asian independent cinema field. He is also a field recording artist specialising in outland ethnic music, oral communication, and wildlife and environmental sounds. Morinaga's eclectic approach to sound design for film has been presented in film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Toronto. He also designed and produced sound in a project for SONY's monolithic design exhibition at Milano Salone 2010.

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Organiser and Partners:
The production of "a male ant has straight antennae " is supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan & Japan Foundation.
Gati Dance Forum, New Delhi - www.gatidance.com
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council - www.prohelvetia.in
Japan Foundation - www.jfindia.org.in
Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan - www.goethe.de/Ins/in/ned/enindex.htm