Since there are a lot of already pre-existing homes facing my site. I would like to turn part of each home into an offering for this performance place. It could be someone’s stilt, another’s the rear lobby, someone’s cantilevered balcony and another’s plinth. I imagine this place to maintain its rustic feeling and one should feel the density of vegetation they are surrounded by. Taking … Continue reading Performance: What could a backyard park be ?
Weaving a story out of the five chosen emotions was an exercise in embodying them. It got me thinking of when what is felt and how one feeling leads to another. The process of constructing a narrative to hold these abstract emotions in a more tangible storyline led me to develop new images of what these emotions could mean. I made my story about a … Continue reading A feeling to form: Part Two
When one is asked to give form to what they are feeling inside, things get tricky. Although due to social conditioning and twenty years of being part of civilisation – some words and feelings begin to get associated with tastes, colours, shapes and sounds. As if everything is finding its characteristics to make itself more real. A feeling wanting to acquire full form or a … Continue reading A feeling to form: Part One
The idea was to build a place for performance not following the conventional behavior of being a proscenium. Having gone through the book ‘Beyond the Proscenium’, it was more clear as to what comprised a typical stage for a performance, that even the performers wanted to break out of. Continue reading Design Program
This blogs contains my ideas and concept of a place of performance on my chosen site which is a terrace of an IT park in Pune. Continue reading Performing on the terrace
My journey of the design process has been dynamic. The blogs has a mix of my high and lows with struggles and achievements in the process to make the final product. Continue reading Journey of the design process
The blog talks about the evolution of my relationship with my site. Continue reading A deepening relationship with my site
The performance part of the residency has been beautiful. We started by five individual postures and turned it into an ensemble where all four of the participants of the residency performed together. The blog talks about the same. Continue reading From inception to ensemble
The blog is a narration of a story telling sessions that we had during the residency program. There were many stories, experiences, emotions and feelings related to each story. Here is a version that focuses on mine. Continue reading Making the invisible visible
The world has been trying to convince us about the supremacy of the mind over everything for a long time. However, after going through a few weeks of movement and embodied exercises in the course of this program I am keen to look at the magical ways in which my body exists with oneself and others. Breathing consciously and being fully aware of one’s breath … Continue reading Everything matters
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