I imagine this place to be a practice hub for budding artists. This place is to be there for the young to get acquainted with different performing arts and if interested, be a part of it and explore. The site thus chosen was amidst the institutional area hoping the place would introduce young minds to the world of performing arts! The site already lures a … Continue reading The garden for performance
The exercise of sketching everyday for a month gave an opportunity to try, fail, try again till you find something interesting and take things ahead. I had always sketched spaces, buildings, trees and vegetation. 2 weeks of drawing human beings took away the inhibition of being bad at drawing human beings. It provided me with an opportunity to try different mediums to realise where exactly … Continue reading Learning through body
A very intriguing question emerged from the discussions around the process of the collage. Even small forms presented in two or three dimensions are very nuanced and layered in the facets that they share information through: material & texture, light and shadow, colour and form. Imagine how complex then is the creation of a space, which, in addition to the qualities enumerated above, also includes the dimension of inhabitation (enveloped by the elements making the space) and time (movement and pause). Such complexity can be overwhelming. Continue reading Emotive Collage
The tableaux was simple because it had cues from the graphical representation we had done it in the precious exercises. Or so I thought. We explored the tableaux in different spaces. I realized that the meaning with which the tableaux were created in the studio, changed, varied, found new connections in new spaces. It made me realize that the emotions are not fixed entities. They … Continue reading ‘i’ndividual to ‘ensemble’
Following are few points which the site visit and the study prompted. The Inhabitation exercise gave clues to spaces which can be kept open to people and those which can be closed. Following study shows that the central chunk to be the space for openness. This space would be suited for large gatherings. All the other spaces in the site can be partially closed for … Continue reading Site development
My eyes got sparkly as soon as they brought in the musical instruments. I had dabbled into string instruments like tanpura, guitar and ukulele and also a percussion instrument – a drumset. But seeing all this variety made me feel really excited. It would be safe to say that this exercise was, by far, the most exciting one. We were set free with the instruments … Continue reading Rhythm within the body, between the bodies and the space
Narration of a story, memory, an experience or even an anecdote is not all about expression and experience. Engaging someone in your narration comes down to how you present it, your vocabulary, your emphasis on words, your tone and most importantly the pauses. Emotions and expression always came easily to me, so for this exercise I focused more on what is to be narrated and … Continue reading Building up a story
The program was inspired by the readings and videos which we discussed during the period of residency and from the study of the performing arts specific to our community. After studying Gondhal and Lavani and Bharud I realized that for any of these performances there need to be explorations in a group as well as individual explorations. Following are some areas in which creative explorations … Continue reading Program for a garden of performance
Me: Ye jagah koi use nahi karta hai, hum ise apna adda bana sakte hai. Mohak(my childhood friend, whose house was beside park in images below) : Pata hai mummy ne bataya tha yaha saanpp bhi ghoomte hai. Yaha nahi khelna chahiye. Me: This park is visible from my house’s balcony. The back gates of other people’s homes open to this well-shaded space. We had … Continue reading What’s there in the backyard parks of Rohini?
Drawing people while they dance is a challenge at keeping the motion alive in a static image. While drawing the images of performance done during the Bhaat Nyotna ceremony from images the challenge of live drawing was reduced as now I had motion frozen and just had to copy that frozen memory of dance in my style of drawing. Motion in the body was most … Continue reading Performance/Ceremony at home
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