Strictly come dancing: Attakkalari Interim Festival returns to Bengaluru
Bengaluru: What is reality? Is it defined by an internal process or does it take place externally, without the interventions and perceptions of the human mind? Cabeza, a performance by the CIA. Daniel Abreau Company, considers fantasy and reality after an emotional accident that travels around the world, from the aggressive, to the oneric and the spiritual. Here, physicality and everything expressed comes from the body and its void and its gestures. CIA Daniel Abreau Company will be in Bengaluru in February, as part of the Attakkalari Interim Festival. The UK's Fuel Dance Theatre will collaborate with Attakkalari to present a work-in-progress, Hemabharathy Palani - Chandini Project.
The Attakkalari Interim Festival, which will take place between February 1 and 10 in Bengaluru, is one of the most important events in Indian and South Asian contemporary dance. Choreographers, dancers and companies from across the world will gather here, creating a platform for cutting-edge innovative practices across the globe. The Attakkalari Interim Festival 2019 presents a multitude of international performances and transdisciplinary partnership projects at Rangashankara Theatre and Attakkalari Studios. It will also mark the start of a new phase for Attakkalari and its founder, gifted and dancer and maverick Jay Palazhy, who has worked, over the decades, to bridge dance with various art forms, as well as interdisciplinary practices.
The festival opens with Situation with Doppelganger, a performance by Julian Warner and Oliver Zahn from Germany, the focus country for the Attakkalari Interim Festival 2019. While Situation with Doppelganger deals with the appropriation of 'black' and other forms of minority dances in pop culture, Andrea Pena and Company from Canada looks at resilience as the capacity of a strained body to recovr after deformation. Switzerlad's CocoonDance explores rhythm and speed as the only driving forces for a unified movement, while the Daniel Abreau Company explores the concepts of construction and deconstruction.
The 10-day festival also includes open studio presentations, workshops and masterclasses by renowned international choreographers and teachers that will help the wider public engage with the festival. It will be a time of performances, workshops, masterclasses, meet-the-artist sessions and multiple models of transdisciplinary explorations.
