Spaces for Practice with Vikram Iyengar, Debashree Bhattacharya, Srijaa Kundu, Srijaini Ghosh | Project Showcase@IFA | October 27, 2023
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
invites you to
Spaces for Practice
A Conversation between Vikram Iyengar, Debashree Bhattacharya,
Srijaa Kundu and Srijaini Ghosh
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 06:30 PM IST onwards | Zoom and Facebook Live
“What happens to pre-existing choreographic structures when they meet new sites, new bodies, new contexts?” asks Vikram Iyengar. The question arises in the context of creating Spaces for Practice – safe spaces for thinking through discursive questions on choreographic practices and experiencing new ways of making movement arts. This formed one of the explorations at Pickle Factory Season 3. Vikram Iyengar coordinated a project under our Arts Practice programme, inviting dancers Piyal Bhattacharya, Preethi Athreya and Aseng Borang to lead workshops through reiterations of their earlier choreographic pieces, with participants at different levels of experiences and backgrounds. The workshops were imagined as moments of self-discovery, through open-ended conversations, and of learning through doing.
Join us to listen to Vikram Iyengar, the curator of Spaces for Practice, in conversation with Debashree Bhattacharya, Srijaa Kundu and Srijaini Ghosh, participants in different workshops. Vikram will share his curatorial process, and be in conversation with Debashree, Srijaa and Srijaini about their experiences and learnings in the workshops.
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The session will also be streamed live on our Facebook page, for which no prior registration is required.
Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Kolkata, India, and working internationally. He is a dancer-choreographer-director, curator-presenter, and arts researcher-writer.
Debashree Bhattacharya is a Kolkata-based Kathak practitioner, an artist keen on understanding, analysing and redefining the kathak form on one hand and the kathak-informed body and mind on the other.
Srijaa Kundu is a dancer, choreographer and facilitator from Kolkata currently pursuing an MA in Ethnochoreography at Irish World Academy, Limerick, Ireland.
Srijaini Ghosh is a dancer and theatre performer based in Kolkata pursuing her Master in Psychology. She aspires to work with aspects of mental health in the arts arena.
This session is organised as part of Project Showcase@IFA, a series of online presentations to showcase, discuss and engage audiences with the diverse projects we support and implement across programmes.
The image has been recreated from photographs from workshops led by Preethi Athreya, Aseng Borang and Piyal Bhattacharya, as a part of the IFA project Spaces for Practice coordinated by Vikram Iyengar.
Vikram Iyengar is the Project Coordinator of the Foundation Project implemented by IFA under the Arts Practice programme, made possible with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.