Post Natyam in October
Post Natyam
Dear friends,
We just finished a month of all three Post Natyam members in the same city! A rare opportunity which we enjoyed tremendously. Though we did not perform together, we spent a lot of time in the studio together, coming up with new work (a trio and a duet), and teaching each other solos. We had fun transforming Shyamala's house into Post Natyam central! During this active month of October, you can see members of Post Natyam in the following events.
Saturday, October 8, 2005; 8:30 pm
Shyamala Moorty will perform RISE
An Indo-American woman transforms into a fierce household goddess, wielding a plunger as her only weapon against riots, religious fundamentalism, and the breakdown of the toilet.
34th Conference on South Asian
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Overture Center, Rotunda Stage
211 State Street
"…a heartening testimony to the very power of artistic work that can touch and transform an audience and challenge them to be involved responsibly in our increasingly shrinking world."- South Asian Popular Culture Journal, October 2004
Friday and Saturday, October 15-16, 2005
Anjali Tata teaches a master class and performs in Fall Dance Concert at the
University of Central Oklahoma
100 N. University Drive, Box 189
Edmond, OK 73034-5209
Performances begin at 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday
Sunday, October 16, 9:45am-12noon
Post Natyam Collective teaches Contemporary Indian Dance Workshop
Dance Arts Academy
731 South La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Ph: 323-932-6230 • www.danceartsacademy.com
Admission at the door (cash only): $8
as a part of the
DANCING IN THE MARGINS FESTIVAL 2005
Upcoming performances in December!
Think globally: dance locally! Contemporary world
dance from around the globe in a new and exciting
festival, in Los Angeles!
Saturday, October 22, 1pm.
Post Natyam is performing in WAC is Back!
Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
http://www.uclalumni.net/info/kaufman/home.cfm
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Summary:
1.Events
- Three Panels on Art
in Contemporary Pakistan, NY and Connecticut
- Seven Graces by Anita Ratnam
in collaboration with Hari Krishnan, NYC
- Towards Neo Bharatam, Anita Ratnam, NYC
- Mumbai International Film Festival/Dance with the Camera
- art sensAsian project 2006, Munich, Germany
- FACETS, Choreolab, Attakkalari, Bangalore
1. Events
- Three Panels Focus on Art & Politics
in Contemporary Pakistan
Tuesday, October 11, 8 pm at The New School, New York
Sunday, October 16, 2 pm at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, CT
Wednesday, October 19, 4 pm at Yale University, New Haven, CT
FREE
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce three public panels that will consider recent art production, writing, and film in contemporary Pakistani culture and its political context.
The panels are free and open to the public, and will take place on Tuesday, October 11 at 8 pm at The New School in New York; Sunday, October 16 at 2 pm at The Aldrich Contemporary Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut; and Wednesday, October 19 from 4 to 6 pm at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Art Asia Pacific is the media sponsor for all three panels.
Informed and inspired by the current Aldrich exhibition, Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, which features a series of works by six contemporary Pakistani artists, the panels will encourage dialogue about current Pakistani culture and politics. People who are able to attend all three panels will find each dynamic and complementary but attendance to all three is in no way mandatory. Pakistani culture has never been more relevant to modern politics; these panels will help identify what emerging creative voices can tell us about Pakistan.
New York: Emerging Creative Voices from Pakistan at The New School
The first panel entitled "Emerging Creative Voices from Pakistan: A Political Context" will be in Tishman Auditorium at The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York, on October 11 at 8 pm.
The event is co-sponsored by The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, with Art AsiaPacific as the media sponsor.
Well-known Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal will be the moderator. Confirmed panelists include; Nusra Latif Qureshi, a Pakistani painter based in Melbourne, Australia, and Mohsin Hamid, author of the acclaimed novel Moth Smoke. For more information, please call (212)229-5353. Event information is also
available at www.nsu.newschool.edu/specialsprograms.
Ridgefield: Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration at The Aldrich Museum
The panel on October 16 at 2 pm at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield
will focus on the Aldrich's current exhibit, Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration. The moderators will be the three curators of the exhibition--the London-based independent curator and writer Hammad Nasar; Anna Sloan, a writer, curator, and historian of Islamic and South Asian Art at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts; and Jessica Hough, Curatorial Director at the Aldrich Museum. Artists, Saira Wasim and Nusra Latif Qureshi will discuss their collaborative work. For more information, call (203)438-4519 or visit our website, www.aldrichart.org.
New Haven: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Pakistan at Yale
University The South Asian Studies Council and Yale South Asian Society at Yale
University will co-host the final panel on Wednesday, October 19 from 4 to 6. Entitled "Aesthetics & Politics--Reflections on image, power and modern Pakistan," this panel will be a lively, interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Chaired by Sara Suleri Goodyear, panelists from Yale University include Veronique Benei, Sharmeem Back, Courtney Martin, Farzin Vahdat, and Laura Wexler. Other panelists include; Faisal Devji, The New School; Mahaz Anwar Fancy, Director of Arts of the Islamic World; and Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins Universiy, For more information, please contact Dhooleka Raj at dhoole...@yale.edu
- 'SEVEN
GRACES…into aesthetic realms of Goddess Tara,' a solo dance performance
by Anita Ratnam in
collaboration with Hari Krishnan (inDANCE, Canada)
has been booked for two shows at New York at the Rubin Museum of Art
in
relation to RMA's current exhibition Female Buddhas: Women of Enlightenment
in Himalayan Art. Interpreted
in an original, textured context, the 60-minute
minimalistic work uses an eclectic array of movement including Bharatanatyam,
Chinese Wu-Shu martial arts, Modern Dance, Tibetan Buddhist liturgical
dance and Zen Buddhism.
Friday, October 28, 7 pm
Saturday, October 29, 4 pm .
Tickets are $25 and include admission to the Female Buddhas exhibition before the performance.
Tickets can be purchased by calling 212.620.5000 ext. 344.
Further details can be found on www.rmanyc.org.
e-mail: ara...@vsnl.com / www.arangham.com
2. Workshop
- Towards NEO BHARATAM
Weekend Dance workshop with acclaimed performer/choreographer from India
ANITA RATNAM
Over the two day intensive session
dancers will learn the ancient Indian theatrical modes of temple ritual
hand gestures (Arayer Sevai), new interpretations of classical Bharatanatyam
etudes, martial art energy, vocalization and chanting as well as the creation
of independent movement phrases that evolve out of classical Indian dance
training and life experience. Working for six hours a day in two
sessions per day, the workshop will culminate in a new 3 to 4 minute choreography
taught from Anita Ratnam's repertoire.
Ratnam's style of performance is
called NEO BHARATAM. Using her training in classical dance forms, acting,
music, television and film, Ratnam has evolved a performance style that
is theatrical and visually compelling. Drawing extensively from her own
life, Ratnam creates from an infinite wellspring of personal anecdotes
and memoirs. Workshop participants will learn how to include dreams and
personal philosophies into material for choreography – all framed into
a pattern that can refresh young choreographers and stimulate the imagination.
Participants will be introduced to the clues and signifiers of vocal pneumonics
where the dancers give voice themselves to the soundscape of the choreography.
NO beginners. Dance and performance
experience a must.
Other movement styles like yoga
and gymnastic and modern dance students are also welcome. A knowledge of
South Asian dance will be very helpful.
Only 10 to 12 students for the entire session permitted.
Dates
Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd in
October 2005
Timings:
Morning Session: 10am to 1pm
Afternoon Session: 2pm to 5pm
Venue
"Lotus Music & Dance"
109, W 27th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Ph: (212) - 627 - 1076
Fax: (212) - 675 - 7191
3. Calls for Entries/Submissions:
- Mumbai International Film Festival 2006
Deadline for entries: Oct 30, 2005
Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India has been biennially organizing Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short and Animation Films, successfully since 1990.
The forthcoming 9th edition of MIFF is scheduled to be held between 3-9 February 2006, at Mumbai.
For
the third time after the success of the 2002 and 2004 editions, a
special package of films on dance called "Dance with the Camera" will
be part of the Festival,
in the non-competitive Section. Among the
categories considered for this section are: biographies of dancers and
choreographers, documentaries on living tradition of dances, creative
collaborations between camera and choreography and films on special
events related to dance.
Please send your entry
in a VHS format for Selection within the 30th of
October to:
Ileana Citaristi
Curator 'Dance with the Camera', MIFF 2006
1965, Bindusagar (West) Bhubaneswar 751002
Orissa, India
A brief synopsis of the film, curriculum of the director and 2 still photos of the picture should be included. In case of selection, the original Beta form should be sent within 5th January 2004 to:
Director
Films Division
24 Dr G Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai 400026
The original Beta reel will be returned to the senders at the completion of the Festival.
For details on 'Dance for the camera' contact Ms. Ileana Citaristi: ile...@hotmail.com
For details on MIFF 2004 visit www.filmsdivision.org
- artsensAsian project 2006: seeking South Asian artists in Germany/with ties to Gemany
artsensAsian project 2006: Eine Veranstaltung von MUNICH MASALA e.V. in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kulturreferat der LH MÜ und der Muffathalle Betriebs GmbH
Betr: Wir suchen KÜNSTLER südasiatischer Herkunft!!!
MUNICH MASALA (www.munichmasala.de ) beabsichtigt eine Veranstaltungsreihe ins Leben zu rufen, die sich der Arbeit Kunst schaffender Menschen südasiatischer Herkunft (zunächst mit Wurzeln in Deutschland) widmen wird.
Konkret suchen wir Personen aus den Bereichen
Tanz, Theater, Comedy, Film, Literatur, Bildende Kunst und Musik
mit Interesse an einer Veranstaltung in München am 1.Oktober 2006 in München mitzuwirken.
Es wird zwei Programmbereiche geben:
1.) möchten wir Künstler bitten, die bereits über eine langjährige Berufserfahrung verfügen, einen etwa 30-minütigen Beitrag beizusteuern. Dieser Programteil wird ausschliesslich auf Einladung zusammengestellt.
2.) soll Raum für „Newcomer" zur Verfügung stehen, sich mit einer eigenständigen,10-minütigen Darbietung der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren.
Falls Ihr Interesse habt, ein aktiver Teil
von art sensAsian 2006 zu werden, würden wir Euch
bitten, uns geeignetes Infomaterial zukommen zu lassen. Details koennt ihr auf der Homepage erfahren:
ASA.munichmasala.de
Einsendeschluss: 15. November 2005
- FACETS 2006
International Choreography Laboratory
7-27 January 2006
- Bangalore - India
In partnership with ResCen
(Middlesex University, UK), Springdance (Netherlands), Greenwich Dance Agency
(UK), Woking Dance Festival (UK), Alliance Française, French Embassy, Max
Mueller Bhavan and the British Council
Following the success of
FACETS 2002 and 2004 Attakkalari is hosting the third residential international
choreography laboratory. Focusing on a multi-disciplinary approach to creating
performance work, FACETS 2006 will bring together some of the most innovative
artists in the fields of movement and choreography, music, lighting and digital
art from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. The three-week residential
course explores the international context of choreographing and presenting the
body, working with different movement techniques as well as utilising existing
and emerging technologies as a creative tool for artistic expression.
FACETS 2006 is led by Christopher Bannermann, Head of ResCen,
Centre for Research into Creation
in the Performing Arts at Middlesex
University (UK), and co-ordinated by Jayachandran Palazhy, Artistic Director of
Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts (India). The facilitators include:
Jérôme Bel, cutting edge French choreographer, Yael Flexer, Director of
UK-based Bedlam Dance Company, Jerwood award winner and
facilitator FACETS 2002, Matsuo Kunihiko (digital artist - Japan), Nic
Sandiland (video and digital artist – UK), C.V. Sathyanarayanan (Kalarippayattu
artist - India), Lorenzo Brusci (composer and sonic artist - Italy), Navtej
Singh Johar (Bharatanatyam - India), Joseph Hyde (composer and digital artist –
UK), H.S. Arun (Yoga - India), Rajeevan (sonic artist - India).
TO APPLY
You can apply to FACETS 2006 either as a dancer or
choreographer. Please send application forms to
FACETS 2006, Greenwich Dance Agency, The Borough Hall, Royal Hill, London SE10
8RE, United Kingdom.
For further information contact Fleur Derbyshire on
++44 (0) 1702 477404 or facet...@gmail.com
Attakkalari
Centre for Movement Arts
24 - 04 BTS Bus Depot Road (Behind Mandovi
Motors),
Wilson Garden, Bangalore - 560 027, India.
Tel: 0091 (0) 80 2212 3684
Fax: 0091 (0) 80 2212 3809
Email: attak...@vsnl.net
attak...@gmail.com
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