Workshops by Preethi Athreya and Mandeep Singh Raikhy | October 30, 2019
Here is an opportunity to join a unique workshop exploring the body as a functional being
through the act of jumping!
About the Workshop:
The Jumping Project began with a desire to create an environment that values the immediacy of action over artistic interpretation. The physicality of jumping is explored for many reasons. Foremost among them is the paradox contained in the act of jumping - a primeval impulse to escape and reach for freedom, while at the same time an expression of inevitable fall, being bound by the forces of gravity.
Jumping is also a physicality that is common to other bodily disciplines such as sport and martial arts, where the decorative element is stripped off to reveal a pure mechanics of the body. This workshop takes us through the building blocks of The Jumping Project as a way to unlearn and relearn our bodies.
About the facilitator:
Preethi Athreya is a Chennai based contemporary dancer. She trained in Bharatanatyam and later went on to do a Postgraduate degree in Dance Studies at Laban Centre, London. Working within the Indian contemporary dance scene as a performer, choreographer and facilitator, she belongs to a league of dance-makers in India today who use dance as an agent of change. Her recent ensemble work, The Jumping Project (2015) reflects an endeavour to find an honest body, possibly unbeautiful, but free of artifice. She is one of the co-founders of Basement 21, a practice-based performance collective in Chennai. She received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under its Arts Practice programme, for a project exploring the body as a functional being, that lead to the performance, Conditions of Carriage.
Workshop Details:
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue: Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
New Building No. 7, 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru - 560 071
Maximum number of participants: 10 (By registration only)
Eligibility: All between the ages of 18 and 80 are welcome
Please wear sport shoes, track pants and tee shirts for this workshop
Register for an opportunity to engage in conversations around the relationship between
performance, activism, gender and sexuality in India
About the Workshop:
The workshop aims to bring together the participants and collectively broadening our understanding of gender, sexuality and desire through references to the choreographic work Queen-size. By watching short clips of the work and unpacking it in discussion, the participants will be encouraged to deconstruct and read the work through the lenses of action, affect and interpretation as well as experience some of the movement propositions explored in the work.
Through an introduction to Queen-size's choreographic structures, its triggers, creation process and challenges, the workshop proposes to open out questions around aesthetics, intimacy and viewership. With a discussion on the performance's relationship with Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, along with references to the history of the struggle against 377 in India, the workshop will open a discussion on the political potency of performance and its particular relationship with sexuality and activism.
About the facilitator:
Mandeep Singh Raikhy is a dance practitioner with a particular interest in exploring the intersections between dance creation, performance, research and pedagogy. Since 2009, Mandeep is managing director at Gati Dance Forum, Delhi. He is currently assistant professor at the MA Performance Practice (Dance) of Ambedkar University, Delhi. He began studying jazz at age 19 at Danceworx, New Delhi, and his subsequent interest in contemporary dance took him to London where he completed a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Since 2010, Mandeep has created several dance works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013) and Queen-size (2016). These works have travelled across the country and internationally over the years including Kampnagel, South Bank Centre and Singapore International Arts Festival. He received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under its Arts Practice programme, to support a series of workshops in five cities of India, pegged around the performance piece Queen-size.
Workshop Details:
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue: Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
New Building No. 7, 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru - 560 071
Maximum number of participants: 20 (By registration only)
Eligibility: All are welcome
These workshops are free, but participation is by Registration Only
Deadline for registration is on or before Friday, October 18, 2019
Please register with your name, contact number and email by writing to darshana@indiaifa.org. All slots will be allocated on first come, first served basis.
The workshops are a part of Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices, an arts festival brought to you by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre, bringing together 40 diverse artistic expressions under six themes of Interrogating Pasts, Confluence of Forms, Engaging Communities, Making Meanings of Myths, Thinking Audiences and Imagining Futures through panel discussions, performances, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions. This festival will be held over three days on October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019 at Bangalore International Centre.
We would like to thank our philanthropy partners Biocon Limited, C. Krishniah Chetty Group of Jewellers, Goethe–Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, RMZ Foundation, Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation and Jaithirth Rao for supporting this festival