Compagnie Philippe Saire is supported by Ville de Lausanne, Canton de Vaud, Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture, Loterie Romande, Fondation de Famille Sandoz, Pour-cent culturel Migros, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Sixt.
Friday, 30 January 2015
Swiss representation at IGNITE! 2015 Pro Helvetia presents A Dream of Silence by an independent choreographer and dancer, Rakesh MPS who currently lives and works in Zurich. Filmmaker, Frédéric Lombard has been invited to document the festival. Fluid territorial boundaries define the lives of the millennial generation of contemporary performers. With the objective of giving a platform to Indian contemporary dance practitioners who have furthered their engagement with contemporary technique, improvisation and choreography in their work as performers in Europe, IGNITE! 2015 has invited Rakesh MPS and Saju Hari, whose choreographic practice encompasses this intercontinental experience, emerging from their identity as Indian-origin artists who frequently work within the European context.
Double Bill Performance 2 as part of IGNITE! 2015 Sunday, 18 January 2015, 8:30 pm, Venue: Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi Duration: 70 min Donor Pass INR 200/ 300/ 400
Rakesh MPS [India / Switzerland] A Dream of Silence What is free will? How and when will I be free? The conflict of the self with the outside is not just a superficial one. The artist believes that it impacts the collective consciousness. The only choice available is to shut out the sensorial world which, in itself, proves to be limited by its own constraints. Eventually, the artist finds a way out through a final act of expressing his free will.
Rakesh started his career as a Bollywood dancer. Since 2003, he has been doing contemporary dance. He was associated with Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts for five years. He participated in the Apprenticeship Program with the Magpie Umbrella Organization under the direction of Katie Duck. Since 2009, Rakesh has worked as a contemporary dance teacher, teaching at many prestigious dance festivals and companies across India and Europe. An independent choreographer and dancer, he now lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Choreography & Performance Rakesh MPS Stage Design Sohil Bhatia Sound Design Gaurav Chintamani Supported by Pro-Helvetia Swiss Arts Council ______________________
Frédéric Lombard at IGNITE 2015 Gati Dance Forum, the organizers of IGNITE!, a festival of contemporary dance to be held in Delhi in January 2015 have invited filmmaker and video artist, Frédéric Lombard to create a film on the works of participating artists. Gati Dance Forum had earlier in December 2011, invited Frédéric Lombard to participate in the Yellow Line Project along with Indian choreographer Surjit Nongmeikapam. The Yellow Line Project (YLP) aimed to create an experimental space for collaborative interactions between dance, film and the city of New Delhi.
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
The Moscow Trials at Fanatika Theatre Documentary Festival In the summer of 2012, when the punk activists of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a penal colony for their performance in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the world reacted with widespread protest rallies. The film by Milo Rau documents the project and illuminates the historical and political backgrounds. The 4th edition of Fanatika International Theatre Documentary Festival (FITDF) from 6-7-8 February 2015 in Ahmedabad presents MILO RAU THE MOSCOW TRIALS Documentary Film about the homonymous theatre project Germany 2014, 86 min (Russian with English subtitles)
In the summer of 2012, when the punk activists of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a penal colony for their performance in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the world reacted with widespread protest rallies. Yet this was only the latest episode in a ten-year series of show trials of artists and dissidents, staged by Putin's system to prevent any form of democratic change.
Rau thematises this issue by drawing on the techniques of political theatre: from March 1 to 3, 2013, a courtroom was set up at the Moscow Sakharov Center to provide a stage for a threeday show trial that pitted the different sides of the cultural war waged in Russia against each other. Yet the people on stage were no professional thespians but real-life actors: artists, politicians, church leaders, real lawyers and a real judge. A jury composed of seven Moscow citizens finally handed down their sentence - an acquittal, albeit by a narrow margin, for the artists.
The 3-day-trial, stormed by the Russian authorities and by units of the cosacks, led to an international scandal and a travel ban against the director Milo Rau. The film "The Moscow Trials" documents the project and illuminates the historical and political backgrounds. Concept and Direction: Milo Rau Camera: Markus Tomsche Sound: Jens Baudisch Stage: Anton Lukas Assistant Director: Yanina Kochtova Editing: Lena Rem Production: Arne Birkenstock French Translation: La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
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For schedule and timings please visit the Festival website.
Sunday, 25 January 2015
Literature Across Frontiers Poetry Connections invites Heike Fiedler Swiss poet Heike Fiedler, who works in the fields of text, sound, visuals and performance will participate in Poetry Connections, organised by Literature Across Frontiers. Literature Across Frontiers Poetry Connections 2015 has invited Swiss performance poet Heike Fiedler to participate in a series of events organised across three cities. Schedule: Hyderabad Monday 19 - 23 January 2015 // workshop in Hyderabad Saturday 24 January 2015 // Performance at the Hyderabad Literature Festival 2015 Timing as per festival schedule. Entry as per festival rules.
Bangalore Sunday 25 January 2015 // Performance at the British Library Bangalore Timing: 6:00 pm Open to all.
Delhi Wednesday 28 January 2015 // Performance at India International Centre Timing: 6:30 pm // Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC. Open to all.
For more information: www.lit-across-frontiers.org
About the event: Swiss author and poet, Heike Fiedler, who works in the fields of text, sound, visuals and performance will present a poetry performance at Poetry Connections, organized by Literature Across Frontiers, a European platform for literary exchange that brings together poets from Europe and India to explore each other's work through translation. The participants will create a multilingual poetry performance that will be showcased at the Hyderabad Literary Festival, the British Library in Bangalore and at the India International Centre in Delhi. Besides Heike Fiedler (Switzerland), other participants include Tsead Bruinja (Netherlands), Siân Melangell Dafydd and David Greenslade (Wales, UK), Miguel Manso (Portugal), Sampurna Chattarji and Mamta Sagar (India), and workshop leader Alexandra Büchler (Literature Across Frontiers). The project is supported by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council along with the Camoes Institute, Douwe Kalma Foundation, Dutch Literature Foundation and the Wales Arts International. Partner: Literature Across Frontiers
Friday, 23 January 2015
The Past, a production by Constanza Macras, DorkyPark and Hellerau The Past explores the art of memory, in which memories are particularly strongly associated with physical locations, rooms and architecture. It is the fruit of a close collaboration with Swiss / Italian composer Oscar Bianchi, who composed the music. Bengaluru I 09 February 2015 7.30 pm as part of the Attakkalari India Biennial 2015 I Chowdiah Memorial Hall I For entry details contact the venue Chennai I 12 February 2015 7.00 pm I Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall I Entry passes available at Goethe-Institut Chennai/Max Mueller Bhavan
Colombo | 15 February 2015 7.00 pm | Musaeus College Auditorium
For entry details contact the venue. The Past, a production by Constanza Macras, DorkyPark and HellerauTHE PAST explores the art of memory, or ars memoriae, in which memories are particularly strongly associated with physical locations, rooms and architecture. The starting point is the city as a concrete geographical location, as an anchor for memory, a mental picture and a cast of mind.
Organised by Goethe-Institut Chennai/Max Mueller Bhavan I Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council I Attakkalari India Biennial I Prakriti Foundation & Taj Vivanta Connemara Chennai I Hellerau - European Centre for Arts Dresden, in co-production with Schaubühne Berlin.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Philippe Saire to mentor young choreographers at FACETS 2015 Swiss choreographer Philippe Saire will participate as a mentor at FACETS, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts' International Choreography Residency, in Bangalore. FACETS 2015 will be held from January 5th to February 5th 2015 in Bangalore. During this period the choreographers will create works which will be premiered at the Attakkalari India Biennial 2015 scheduled between February 6th and 15th. The Residency will act as a mentored production period in which 16 emerging choreographers will benefit from Philippe Saire's expertise and experience. The outcome of this mentorship will be a new quality performance piece in a creative environment that will premiere at the Attakkalari India Biennial 2015. About Philippe Saire Philippe Saire's choreography has earned him prestigious awards like the Young Creator Prize from the Vaud Foundation for Artistic Promotion and Creation in 1988 and the Grand Prize from the same foundation in 1998 and the Swiss Prize for Dance and Choreography in 2004. He is credited with more than forty choreography projects, including Cartographies, a continually renewed initiative combining dance, architecture and video. The Philippe Saire Company has given almost 1000 performances in more than 160 cities across Europe, Africa, Asia and America. For further information click here. Photo credit: Mario del Curto
Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts has announced the names of the candidates selected for Facets. 1. Diya Naidu, India 2. Pradeep Gunarathna, Sri Lanka 3. Avantika Bahl, India 4. Hemabharathy Palani, India 5. Prassanna Saikia, India 6. Mehneer Sudan, India 7. Charlotte Jarvis, UK 8. Patrick Lartey, Australia 9. Soo-Hyun Hwang, Korea 10. Woojung Kim, Korea
Partner: Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts For more information visit www.attakkalaribiennial.org
