After a weekend of theatre performances, music and dance will set the tune for the next weekend at Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts and Research near Edayanchavadi in Auroville.
The second weekend of ‘Remembering Veenapani Festival’ will begin with a dance performance ‘Across, Not Over’ on February 10. Choreographed by Preethi Athreya, the work is a result of a dialogue between two dancers from two very different forms of dance.
Preethi Athreya’s training in Bharatanatyam dance and subsequent body of choreographic work within the contemporary genre meets very personal concerns of the performer Vikram Iyengar and his work in the kathak form.
The exploration questions and re-frames notions of classicism and beauty by presenting the dancing body as an image of itself.
The following day, The Sage for the Ages and Kaartikz Ensemble, bands from India and Bangladesh will be performing at a live music concert. The Sage for the Ages is a new-age independent band with members from India and Bangladesh. The band tells stories through their original compositions. Kaartikz Ensemble is a four-piece band that does western contemporary arrangements of traditional Bengali music, apart from covering jazz standards and tunes from today’s underground music scene. The band has Kaartik on vocals, baritone guitar, synth, Kirtana Krishna on vocals and guitar, Raj on Bass and Turjo on drums.
“We play traditional Bengali songs and other renditions as well. I started working with the band from Bangladesh from 2015. It is the first time that Raj and Turjo are coming to Adishakti,” said Kirtana.
On February 12, ‘Rage & Beyond: Irawati’s Gandhari’ retells the entire Mahabharata from the point of view of Gandhari, the iconic queen with the blindfold. Written, choreographed and performed by Sanjukta Wagh, it is inspired by Irawati Karve’s interpretation Gandhari in her text Yugant, one of the first contemporary interpretations of the Mahabharata.
The events are scheduled to start at 7 p.m. on all days.
