SoundMusik in Kollaboration mit Sam Auinger für die TanztheaterPerformance AadhaaraChakra
am Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore / Indien
| AadhaaraChakra – A Dancelogue / A journey across intangible spaces |
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| Curtain Raiser to the Attakkalari India Biennial 2013 |
| Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts / new dehli (IN). |
| AadhaaraChakra – A Dancelogue is a hybrid ‘performance event’, weaving in multiple disciplines – movement, film, light, plastic arts, multimedia design and sound. Set in an imagined land and oscillating between the past and present, the work invites the audience to partake in a ritualized experience. In a complex and often fragmented narrative, the dancers embody characters from diverse Indian locales and periods. Celluloid images accompany the sometimes surreal visual journey. A small village provides the backdrop for jasmine vendors, vegetable sellers, bangle shops and tricycles – the myriad sounds and rainbow hues invoking an ever present past. The narrow alleyways of old Delhi mesh into the expansive solitude of Humayun’s Tomb and the Qutub Minar. Calls from vendors, loud music from temples and mosques, and cricket commentaries blend into an urban Indian cacophony. The production brings alive the essence of domestic life in a traditional Chettinad house, the sacred rituals in a Shiva temple, and the flavours and fragrances of a spice market. Conceived and directed by Jayachandran Palazhy, Attakkalari’s Artistic Director and choreographed by him and the dancers, ‘AadhaaraChakra – a Dancelogue’ is performed by Attakkalari’s renowned Repertory Company. Music composers Sam Auinger and Martin Lutz modulate classical Indian music, hawkers’ cries, and popular cinematic strains using urban imagination to create an evocative soundscape. Filmic images shot by Rupert Schwarzbauer morph versatile architectural spaces designed by Dominic Dube. The light design by Pipon provides surprise elements which interact with Ken Furudate’s digital design... „The music for the performance has been composed by Sam Auinger and Martin Lutz from Germany, who work with a variety of urban sounds from the streets including hawkers’ cries, construction sounds, horns, and children’s cries, along with Indian classical music. “We are trying to make something similar to music by searching for rhythms and arranging and tuning sounds like music, but what we create is something that lies somewhere between music and sound,” says Martin. “The director is playing with a clash of cultures in the performance by mixing tradition with the contemporary and the global, so we have tried playing with our music to match this performance.” (aus: The Hindu vom 22.11.2012, Across the arts von Harshini Vakkalanka) |