The Company Theatre presents Adishakti's GANAPATI...directed by Veenapani Chawla...
February 3, 2016 2:48:52 PM IST MTG editorial
Adishakti in association with The Company Theatre is staging GANAPATI in Mumbai.
The performance is an interpretation of the birth stories related to the myths of Ganapati {the elephant headed god from the Puranic cycle}/ Martanda from the Vedic cycle. It is structured in a recurring cycle of creation, celebration, destruction and return, which parallel's the motif in these birth stories. The return is suggested by a re-telling of the myth repeatedly and from different points of view. The aim is to allow its main concern, that of creations and creativity, to be interpreted at a variety of different levels.
The performance suggests its concerns largely through different patterns and textures of rhythms. The verbal text is minimal. And both the verbal text and the aural images are supported by visual cues and images. The rhythms used in this piece have been evolved from the rhythms of Koodiyattam music and folk rhythms from various parts of South Asia.
This production emerged from a grant made by the India Foundation for the Arts to Adishakti on the topic 'Rhythm as a Text in Koodiyattam and Contemporary Theatre'.
Performers: Vinay Kumar, Arvind Rane, Pascal Sieger, Nimmy Raphel, Anoop Davis AND Apoorva Arthur.
Light Design: Vinay Kumar
Light Operation: Ashiqa Salvan
Direction, Script, Concept, Music Arrangement and Choreography: Veenapani Chawla
Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutues
Schedule: 20th February 2016 at 6 & 9 pm at G5a Foundation for Contemporary Culture, Mumbai.
Tickets: www.bookmyshow.comAlso at G5A on the day of the show.
About Adishakti: Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts & Research is a site on the outskirts of Pondicherry, and a performing arts company engaged in creating performances, researching genres and disciplines and creating processes and performance methodologies. The team comprises writers, directors, actors, musicians, dancers, and performers of various art forms.
Adishakti was created in 1981 as a theatre company in Mumbai. In 1993 it shifted base to Pondicherry.
About The Company Theatre (TCT):
The Company Theatre (TCT) since 1993 continues to work with the singular commitment to theatre. A non-profit registered organization TCT is a theatre ensemble of professional and amateur artists working through repertory performances and professional training. Led by Atul Kumar, TCT seeks to explore interdisciplinary art forms and develop diverse artist and audience communities from all over the world.
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