Post Natyam in March
Post Natyam
Post Natyam Collective – March 2006 Newsletter
Dances of Nepal".
Yours truly J,
Post Natyam
Sandra, Anjali, Shyamala, and Sangita
Post Natyam Performances:
Augsburg
Sunday 12.3.2006, ab 20 Uhr
Restaurant/Galerie 'Zenzero' tel. 0821- 52 87 80
€ 29, inklusive Ayurvedisches Menü
Zeitgenössischer Tanz mit indischer Basis:
Ausgewählte klassische und zeitgenössische indische Tanzchoreographien von
und mit Sandra Chatterjee, als Auftakt zu einer Reihe von Lesungen indischer Autoren in Augsburg – (siehe näheres unter Post Natyam Pointers)
Munich
Friday, 17.3.2006
Munich Masala
Eintritt € 6
Café MUFFATHALLE,
Zellstr. 4,
81667 Munich
20:00 Uhr: Film: East is East, UK 1999 based on a play by Ayub Khan-Din
21:45 Uhr; Zeitgenössischer Indischer Tanz mit Sandra
ab 22:15 Uhr: Munich Masala Club Night
Post Natyam Pointers:
Summary:
Events:
1. Los Angeles: Tasneem and Shaheen, Knitting Factory, March 1
2. Paris: Inde/Traditions et creations, Centre National de la Danse, March 1-5
3. New York City: Dancers with a Difference, March 6
4. Los Angeles: D'Lo performing at Sisterhood is Powerful, March 4
5. Vienna: Shailja Patel's Migritude, Her Position in Transition Festival, March 15, 17, and 18
6. Augsburg: Lesungen indischer Autoren, 22., 24. Und 29. Maerz 2006
Calls for
Submissions/Grants/Residencies:
1. Los Angeles: Artivist Film Festival, deadline: 1 March 2006, extended deadline, 15 April (more $$)
2. NYC: Submit to playwright's week, deadline 10 March 2006
3. Los Angeles: LA Dance Invitational 2006, deadline 15 March 2006
4. NYC: South Asian Diaspora Playwrights Residency, deadline 14 March 2006
5. San Francisco: Queer Tactics, call for short films, deadline 15 March 2006
6. Munich: Call for works, artSensAsian Project, deadline 15 March 2006
7. Kolkata: Dance Matters, call for papers, deadline 30 March 2006
8. Los Angeles: YouthWallah, summer arts mentorship program, deadline 1 April 2006
Detailed Listings
Events:
1. Los Angeles: Tasneem and Shaheen
Wednesday, March 1st 8pm
TasneemALone w/ Shaheen Sheik
@ the Knitting Factory
7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
2.
Paris: Inde/Traditions et créations: un subtil mélange d'emprunt et de réinvention
Wednesday, March 1- Sunday March 5
Centre National de la Danse
Pari
Talks, lecture
demonstrations, for example by Ananya Chatterjea and Rani Nair, screenings of
films, for example Uday Shankar's Kalpana.
Detailed schedule at:
http://web.cnd.fr/index_html?page=http://web.cnd.fr/CND/saison
3. New York City: DANCERS WITH A DIFFERENCE
Monday, March 6 at 7 pm
featuring
Anita Ratnam, Rajika Puri, Swati Bhise, Janaki Patrick
Consulate of India, 3E 64th St, NYC 10021
rsvp phone: 212 529 2347, ar...@iaac.us OR 212 774 0628
The performances will be followed by a wine reception.
Wine courtesy Bilimoria Wines.
Indo-American Arts Council Inc, 146West 29th St, Suite 7R3, NYC 10001
Phone: 212 529 2347/212 594 3685. Email: ar...@iaac.us. Web: www.iaac.us
4.
Los Angeles: D'Lo performing at Sisterhood is Power
Saturday, March 4, 5-9 pm
The Love Movement open mic poetry music song art
"Speaking Your Mind Can Free Your Soul"
presents
SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL
A Celebration of Women in the Visual / Performing Arts Communities
MARCH 2006 - WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
located @
KAOS NETWORK
4343 Leimert Blvd.
The Historic Leimert Park Village
Los Angeles, CA 90008
SEATING IS LIMITED; $8 RSVP HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
Call: (310) 639-9513
E-Mail:
thel...@yahoo.com
Come join TLM in celebrating and honoring the great impact that women have made and continuously make society via the arts. A perfect way to connect with the wonderful and inspirational women in your life, be it your mother, aunt, soror or best friend. Men are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to attend, so come out and support your sisters!
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday March 4th 5:00-9:00 P.M. $10
W/ eclectic, engaging & empowering sets of live music, spoken word,
dance & more by
Angie Evans + Butchlalis De Panochtitlan + Jennifer Sarreal + Miki
Vale + Mother's Child African Dance Ensemble, D'Lo & Nikki Skies
Special Guest Host: Tamara Blue
Sounds By: DJ Starchild (Divine Forces Radio)
(that's right....a she-jay in the house!)
Vendors, $5 opportunity drawing w/ fabulous prizes & more, so bring
your full wallets!
5. Vienna: Shailja Patel's Migritude
15., 17.,18. Maerz um 20:00 Uhr;
7Stern
Siebensterngasse 31
Tickets:
VORVERKAUF: EUR 9,-
/ ermŠ§igt EUR 8,- / Package-ErmŠ§igung: 5 Karten EUR 40,-
NUR IM FESTIVAL
CENTER (bis 1 Tag vor der jeweiligen Veranstaltung) KosmosTheater A-1070 Wien,
Siebensterngasse 42, Tel. +43-1-523 12 26
ABENDKASSA (DIREKT
am Spielort, 1 Stunde vor der jeweiligen Veranstaltung): EUR 11,- / ermŠ§igt
EUR 9,-
http://www.herpositionintransition.at/de/projekte/10.php
6. Augsburg: Lesungen indischer Autoren
Mi. 22.3. und Fr. 24.3. ab 19 h
im Zenzero, Ravenspurgerstr. 41 und
Mi. 29.3. 19.30 h in der Neuen Uni.
Zum Themenschwerpunkt Indien der Buchmessen werden namhafte LiteratInnen des Subkontinents Deutschland besuchen – neben Leipzig,
Frankfurt, Hamburg und Muenchen auch Augsburg!
Unter der Schirmherrschaft von Prof. Anita Pfaff werden an der Uni und im Ayurveda-Restaurant ÕZenzeroÕ die Schreiber den Reichtum ihrer Werke in unsere einst durch Handel eng mit Indien verbundene Stadt bringen.
Der Initiative des Indischen Konsuls und des Indien-Instituts in MŸnchen sowie zweier Indienkennern ist es zu verdanken, dass die Welt nicht an Augsburg vorbeigeht:
Christian Krug, der 2005 mit seinem ÕWalk of PeaceÕ 1700 km durch Indien wanderte, (Bericht darŸber erscheint im Verlag Reise Know-How) wurde mit der Organisation beauftragt und wird die Veranstaltungen moderieren sowie die deutschen †bersetzungen vorlesen.
Alexander Linder, der sein kulturelles Extrakt aus 38 Indienaufenthalten im eigenen ÕlebensweisendenÕ Restaurant einbringt, ist idealer Gastgeber: er moderierte 2003 bei der Konferenz ÕMedizin im Kontext der KulturenÕ an der TU Muenchen. (u. a. mit S. H. dem Dalai Lama).
Calls for Submissions/Grants/Residencies:
1. Los Angeles: "The Film Festival" for the new millennium.
Submit your Film!!
Deadlines: March 1, 2006, April 15 (extended), see details below
The Artivist Film Festival ONLY accepts Films/Videos that address either a human rights, social, political issue, children's issues/advocacy, animal issues/rights, or environmental issues. In essence, "activist" films that raise awareness about a particular issue or topic. Artivist screens shorts, feature length films, documentaries, narratives, rockumentaries, experimental and animated shorts directed by international filmmakers.
The following must accompany a submission for it to be considered for The Artivist Film Festival:
Completed Official Entry Form
Entry Fee. Artivist accepts check, money order, or on-line paperless Credit Card payments made payable to The Artivist Collective.
2 VHS or DVD Screeners of your Film/Video. Multiple entries may be conveniently placed on 1 VHS or DVD. We then require 2 copies of that VHS or DVD for viewing purposes
CATEGORIES
The Artivist Film Festival accepts the following categories and lengths only:
Feature Film or Video 60 minutes minimum. - 150 minutes max
Documentary Film or Video 2 minutes minimum. - 150 minutes max
Short Film or Video 2 minutes minimum. - 59 minutes max
Animation 3 minutes minimum. - 150 minutes max
Music Video No minimum/maximum requirements
FILM SUBMISSION FEES & DUE DATES
Filmmakers are encouraged to submit early!
NOTE: "Premium WithoutABox Members" receive a discount on all submission fees.
Submission
Categories Dates General Rates for
Non-members and "Basic WAB" Members Premium WAB Members
Late
Deadline March 1, 2006
$55.00 $50
FINAL Extended Deadline April 1, 2006 $70.00 $55
NOTE: Filmmakers may submit multiple entries of their own work. There is a $20 fee for EVERY ADDITIONAL ENTRY submitted.
2. New York City: SUBMIT A PLAY FOR PLAYWRIGHTS' WEEK 2006
Submission Deadline: MARCH 10, 2006
Visit our website at: www.larktheatre.org to fill out an application online!
Mail submission
materials to:
Lark Play Development Center
c/o Literary Wing Submission
939 Eighth Avenue, Suite 301
New York, NY 10019.
SUBMISSION
CHECKLIST:
$20 non-refundable entry fee.
One full length OR two one-act plays (to be considered as one work).
One completed 3-paged application available on our website.
A self-addressed stamped envelope (If you'd like the script returned to you)
If you have any
questions or would like more information please e-mail us at
submi...@larktheatre.org
WHAT KIND OF PLAYS
ARE WE SEEKING?
Works that are
ambitious, fresh, playful, engaging, energizing, provocative, powerful and
theatrical.
Works that reveal
unheard and vital perspectives
Authors with clear goals about their writing who are open to the Lark's developmental process.
3. Los Angeles: LA Dance Invitational 2006
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MARCH 15, 2006.
LESTER HORTON DANCE
AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST PRODUCTION, FESTIVAL OR SERIES.
Choreographers and dance companies are invited to submit videos of a finished, original work for consideration in the 7th annual Los Angeles Dance Invitational, to be presented on Saturday, June 3, 2006, at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. Primary consideration will be given to works never before presented to an audience in California. All dance genres are welcome. Works-in-progress are also welcome, but must be completed within 30 days of submission. For complete submission requirements, please visit
http://www.ladi.voiceofdance.com.
If you have questions, please send an email to:
Howard Ibach at hib...@earthlink.net The purpose of the Invitational is to give dance companies, choreographers and dancers the opportunity to present new work to a broad audience in a professional environment; to provide dance opportunities for students and young dancers; to educate the community at large about the diversity of dance and dance-making; and to acknowledge and honor the legacy of dance teachers and mentors.Thank you! Howard Ibach, LA Dance Invitational http://ladi.voiceofdance.com "The best things happen while you're dancing..."
4. New York City: SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA Playwright's residency PROGRAM
Submission Deadline: March 14, 2006
The INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL and LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
Seek Applicants for
IAAC Playwright Residency Program and Playwrights' Week
The Indo-American Arts Council and the Lark Play Development Center are seeking playwrights from the South Asian Diaspora for Playwrights' Week and a year-long Playwright Residency Program to commence in September, 2006.
The selected IAAC Playwright-in-Residence will receive:
$1000 Honorarium;
Three additional roundtables, led by Lark leadership and professional directors and actors, to develop a new play during the 2006-07 Season;
Participation as a 2006-07 Lark Artistic Associate, a committee of artists actively developing work at the Lark who attend other's work, and meet four times during the year for in-depth discussions about artistic challenges facing the company.
The selected IAAC Playwrights' Week winner will receive:
Inclusion in the Lark's 2006 Playwrights' Week Festival a weeklong event focused on developing new and unheard voices for the theatre through targeted outreach efforts, growth opportunities for playwrights and theatre artists, and organized forums for community discussion; Creative teams, including a director and actors, and ten hours of rehearsal time; A public reading to address specific developmental goals.
This initiative is
made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and
from the New YorkState Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA PROGRAM
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
All submissions must include: a completed application form, a statement of purpose, and one full-length play.
APPLICATION FORM For which program are you submitting your work? (Please circle one or both)
Playwrights' Week
Playwriting Residency
Personal Information
Playwright Name (Last, First): ____________________________________________________________________________
Representation (Name of company and agent if applicable): _____________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________
Daytime Phone: ____________________________ Evening Phone: _______________________________________
Email: ____________________________ Fax: ____________________________
Play Information
Synopsis: (Please limit to 2-3 sentences):
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Number of Actors required:
Male: ____________ Female: ___________
Please list any prior development work and/or productions this play may have had:
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
APPLICATION FORM (PAGE 2)
How did you hear about the Lark and/or the South Asian Diaspora Program?
Have you ever had your work presented and/or developed at the Lark? If yes, please explain:
Biography:
Tell us more about yourself in 100 words or less. Be sure to include occupation, training, and/or any awards you've received. (Use separate sheet if necessary)
Please attach a STATEMENT OF PURPOSE which addresses why you are interested in being selected for as the INSERT NAME SPONSOR Playwright-in-Residence and how you and your work would benefit from development time at the Lark.
Submission Checklist:
One completed application form
Statement of Purpose
One full length play
$20 submission fee (For Playwrights' Week submissions only)
PLEASE NOTE:
We prefer scripts bound in clear front report covers with fasteners. (No hard cover binders, permanent spiral binding, or unbound scripts.)
Submit single sided scripts only.
If you have any questions or would like more information please email Literary Manager, Tasha Ross: Ta...@larktheatre.org
DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONNAIRE
Please take a moment and fill in the information requested below. This questionnaire is not a part of the application and will not affect the review of your play. Your response will be kept confidential by Lark staff and will be used to monitor our diversity outreach efforts to support program growth.
Sex (Please circle one):
Male Female
Age Range (Please circle one): Under 20
20-29
30-50
Over 50
Race or Ethnicity:
Citizenship:
Country of Origin:
5. San Francisco: Queer Tactics call for short films
Submission Deadline March 15, 2006
QUEER TACTICS SHORT FILM FEST --- a night celebrating short films
at the National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, 2006
This open call for entries seeks works that examines Queer Tactics through documentary, narrative, comedy, animation, experimentation and/or music video. Work must be less than 20 minutes. Please include sub-titles for non-English language films. All work screened in the festival should be completed by May, 2006, works in progress accepted for submission copy..
This year's theme for the National Queer Arts Festival is "Hope and Healing in Times of War" we encourage you to submit work or create work that blends this theme with the notion of Queer Tactics for the festival.
**Running Time less than 20 minutes.
**25 word synopsis
**Current Contact information.
**websites and press kits
**$10 submission
fee/ or proof income less than 20k
questions? and for submission form contact: shanih...@gmail.com
QUEER TACTICS, -
*Queer
adj: Deviating from the expected or normal
**Tac-tic
n:--An Expedient for achieving a goal; a maneuver
A plan for attaining a particular goal
----/ Contact Info /----------------------------------------------------
Shani Heckman
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org
6. Munich: Call for Works: artsensAsian
Deadline: 15 March 2006
Munich Masala (www.munichmasala.de), in collaboration with Post Natyam ( www.postnatyam.net), is planning to produce an event series which aims to support and present the work of artists of South Asian origin (initially primarily South Asians with roots in Germany).
While there is no homogenous definition for this community, and each artist's self-definition is unique, we might find that there are communalities that connect us. Without doubt, however, it will be exciting to share our work and discover the different ways we define ourselves as artists and South Asians and how those self-definitions shape our art.
In particular, we
are looking for people working in
Dance, Theater, Comedy, Film, Literature, Visual Arts, and Music
who are interested
to participate in an event in Munich on October 1, 2006
There will be two sections of the event:
1) We
will invite artists who have been active at a professional level for several
years, to contribute presentations of approximately 30 minutes. This part of
the program will be curated by invitation only.
2) We also want to provide a forum for "newcomers" to present 10 minutes of their work.
The event will be concluded with a party featuring Asian DJs from across Germany.
If you are
interested in actively participating in art sensAsian 2006, please send us the
following:
- a
10-minute-video (a simple live video of a performance or literature reading),
or a small visual arts portfolio. If you would like your material returned to
you, please include a stamped return envelope.
- A
short bio and artistic statement (no more than one page)
There are no
prescriptions in terms of the content of the work, but it would be great if it
was a reflection of your diasporic South Asian life.
DEADLINE (extended): 15 March 2006
We would like to produce art sensAsian annually, so please feel free to send us your material even after the deadline. We will consider your submission for the following year, or in case there are any changes in the programming for 2006.
Please send your
material to:
art sensAsian
c/o Dutta
Hans-Keis-Str.10
82049 Pullach
Ph: +49-89 – 664455 (Roman)
Email: artsen...@munichmasala.de
Website: ASA.munichmasala.de
We look forward to
hearing from you,
Sandra Chatterjee (dancer, Post Natyam Collective), Bidisha Dutta (sociologist, Munich Masala), Kavita Sharma (visual artist, Munich Masala), Roman Chowdhury (musician, Munich Masala)
7. Kolkata: DANCE MATTERS - 2 day symposium
Deadline: March 30, 2006
The School of Media, Communication and Culture at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India is pleased to announce a two-day symposium titled Dance Matters on August 10-11 2006. This symposium proposes to bring to the forefront innovative approaches that have placed dance at the center of scholarly research on body, ritual, culture, identity, history, gender, and power. Selected papers from the symposium will be published in a book.
Dance is a vital aspect of expressive culture. It embodies the cultural experience and expression of a particular collective identity. Notions of culture, identity, and history are continually re-invented through dance. Indian dance forms have emerged as an important critical lens to analyze narratives of nationalism, transnationalism, women's bodies, and postcolonial politics. Scholarly research on Indian dance forms has spanned disciplines such as Anthropology, Culture studies, Performance studies, Art history, Postcolonial and Feminist studies. The recent formulation of Dance studies as an academic discipline is a result of the increased circulation of various dance forms in the international scholarly and art-culture circuits. This conference will bring scholars and practitioners together on the same platform to evaluate the status of Indian dance forms (ranging from classical, to folk, to Bollywood) in shaping current discourses on culture, tradition, history, identity, human rights and more. The topics to be covered include
¤ Tradition and Globalization
¤ Religion and Culture
¤ Identity and Hybridity
¤ Gender and Sexuality
¤ Media and Popular Culture
¤ Ethnography and Audience
¤ Dance and Social justice
¤ Ritual and Aesthetics
Please send a brief
abstract (350 words) including a title, name, address, email, phone number and
institutional affiliation by March 30, 2006. Submit abstracts and direct
queries to
Dr. Nilanajana Gupta, Director
School of Media Communication and Culture
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Email: nilag...@yahoo.com
Dr. Pallabi Chakravorty
Department of Music and Dance
Swarthmore College, Pa 19096, U.S.A
Email: pcha...@swarthmore.edu
Jadavpur University will provide local hospitality for the speakers at the University guesthouse.
Sponsored by UGC University with Excellence for Excellence Programme: Studies in Cultural Processes.
8. Los Angeles: YouthWallah, a summer arts mentorship program for emerging South Asian artists
Apply by April 1, 2006
Mentorship Workshops: July 8th - September 24th, 2006.
INTERESTED IN THE ARTS?
This summer, YouthWallah will select 13 South Asians (age 16-24) from
the greater Los Angeles area with a keen interest in developing their
artistic voices through the disciplines of dance, film, literature,
music, theatre, spoken word, stand-up comedy, or visual art. Through
one on one mentorship with a professional artist, and group workshops,
YouthWallah participants will focus on the creative process, while
building a skill set of practical tools for artistry.
At the end of the YouthWallah Workshop Program, each artist will be
invited to submit their works for formal presentation in "Desi
Factor", a showcase of visual and performing arts, produced by
ArtWallah and presented at Highways Performing Arts Space in Santa
Monica, CA.
Workshops run from July 8 - September 24, 2006. "Desi Factor" will be
presented in November 2006.
Please view our application online: www.artwallah.org /youthwallah
Application Deadline: April 1, 2006.
For more information, email yo...@artwallah.org
Attached is the YouthWallah 2006 Application
ArtWallah
2210 Lincoln Blvd. Suite 5
Venice CA 90291
310.391.3330 t, 310.391.1066 f,
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