Sound artist POL returns to collaborate with Mehneer Sudan

'Of Women' is a presentation by Indian choreographer and performer Mehneer Sudan in collaboration with Swiss sound artist POL.

Swiss musician and sound artist POL was on a residency awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in 2014. The opportunity gave him the chance to engage with Indian artists, one of them Indian choreographer, performer and teacher Mehneer Sudan who was working on her dance theatre piece, 'Of Women' for which POL has designed the sound.

'Of women' is a dance theatre piece that attempts to question the tension between expected gender roles and personal perceptions of feminine identity. The work has been created through an exploratory process that takes the form of an exhibition in the performance space.
Choreographed by Mehneer Sudan.
Sound design by POL

Performance
Friday 26 September & Saturday 27 September 2014 at 7:00 pm 
Venue: Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 
Children below 16 years not allowed.

About the presentation 
What does it mean to be female? What does one do that makes her 'female'? How does one sit, stand, lie, kneel, walk, jump or represent the body in stillness or in action to be categorised as a 'woman'? How far is one's identity shaped by these expectations? 'Of women' is a dance theatre piece that attempts to question the tension between expected gender roles and personal perceptions of feminine identity. The work has been created through an exploratory process that takes the form of an exhibition in the performance space.

About POL 
Electronic music producer since the dawn of the nineties, nested between the persistant hammering of an electro dancefloor and the dark backstages of the post-industrial civilisation, POL infiltrates his music into the world by every mean. On screens, his productions have insinuated themselves in the arty zombies movie of cult director Bruce LaBruce and also in the very French Quand j'étais chanteur, with Cécile de France and Gérard Depardieu. He has co-written Water Lilly's music, electro-techno with a touch of pop glamour and cosmic atmospheres. Today, he pursues his conquest of space as a solo pilot.