Must See: Pina Bausch in India
Pina Bausch in India
German choreographer Pina Bausch has dubbed her new, Asian-inspired dance to be performed next month in India the “Bamboo Blues,”.
The Wuppertal Dance Theatre is set to visit India January 7-19, playing in New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.
New Delhi: 7.01.07
Mumbai: 12.01.07
Kolkata: 18.01.07 & 19.01.07
Please nb: both in Delhi and in Mumbai, the performance will take place within the Festival of the National School of Drama!
Bausch, 67, had decided on the “inspiring” title after a visit to Kyoto, Japan. The piece was devised in 2006 in consultation with the Goethe Institute, the German cultural agency, in India, and was premiered in Germany in May this year without any name as the company’s “new work.”
As part of its golden jubilee celebrations The National School of Drama presents Bamboo Blues: a dance theatre production by Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal and a co-production with the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavans in India at the Tenth Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2008.
Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal will visit India to perform their most recent work. The piece was still untitled when it premiered in May 2007 in Wuppertal. Now called Bamboo Blues, Pina Bausch’s latest production was conceived against the background of a journey to India organised by the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan to collect impressions and experiences. The journey took the choreographer, her longstanding stage designer Peter Pabst and several dancers to Kolkata, Kerala and other places.
Inspired by this journey, Bamboo Blues develops images and episodes without ever being a faithful reproduction of Indian impressions. Thirteen years after her triumph with Carnations, Pina Bausch returns to India where audiences eagerly await her choreographic interpretation of India on stage. As always with her new pieces, Pina Bausch, who was recently awarded the Kyoto Prize for her work, will modify and continue to develop the new production during the tour.
Ever since her first guest performance in 1979, Pina Bausch has developed a fascination for this country and has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary dance theatre in India. Her impact on the Indian contemporary dance scene was also expressed in her friendship with Chandralekha. India tour:
Internet: www.pina-bausch.de
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Ramu
A protest song in your honour for enlightning us again & again in 2007.
www.ohms.nu/chandler/disk_2/someth.htm
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There is Something in the Air, But It is Not on the Airwaves
By Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney arranged by David Roe
You know, we have GOT it together. There ARE people in the streets.
At the very onset of Oil War Two there were already more people on the
streets protesting than there were at the height of the Vietnam war.
There is something in the air, but it is not on the airwaves.
If there are a half a dozen Jaycees in Cincinnati on a street corner
waving yellow ribbons, Fox news acts like it’s A Republican Woodstock.
“By the time we got to Fallujah we were half a million strong.”
But put a million people on the street and they build a fence around you and
call it a protest zone.
We like to look at Vietnam through the soft focus of Hollywood ,
which took the blood of war and turned it into rose-colored glasses.
We see hundredss of beautiful semi-naked twenty-somethings putting daises in
the barrels of M16s, all to the tune of Country Joe McDonald singing “One two three what are we fightin for?”
It makes for spectacular video. Sometimes I see these images and I want
to run naked through the streets singing “Why don’t we da do it in the
road!”
But I know better.
When the first American troops went in to Vietnam in 1964 there was
barely a soul on the streets, yet people were already singing Blowin’
in the Wind, and Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and I Ain’t Marchin’
Anymore. These songs were being released on major record labels. Mega
hits would follow. Today we have more people on the streets and yet there has not been a single hit song on the radio. How could this be?
It’s not like Barry McGuire was a deep thinking anti-war intellectual
when he sang “Eve of Destruction.” No, he was jumping on a bandwagon
made possible by people in the streets. Yet right now, there are more
people on the streets than there was then, but you have to think twice
before jumping on that bandwagon for fear it might be a paddy wagon
bound for Guantanamo Bay .
If you speak the truth on national TV your show will be dropped,
regardless of the ratings…ask Bill Maher. A show doesn’t need an
audience as much as it needs sponsors.
Sixties protesters were brought up in the brand-loyal fifties. These kids were major consumers of all
kinds of goods. They queued up to buy groovy Carnaby Street “Mod Gear”
and “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” cosmetics. Today’s protester does not
BUY anything. They won’t shop at GAP. They boycott Taco Bell. Hell,
they won’t even go to Starbucks.
Oh, before the Berlin Wall fell
we loved to talk about how the Soviet Union would broadcast only the songs of the state and we romanticized
that is was our radio broadcasts wafting in from West Berlin that tore
down the wall. .
Yet now, the cell phone is in the other hand. There is a new wall running down
divided America . And it is American radio that is being manipulated by
the agenda of the state, because the state has become indistinguishable
from the corporation
Where is the location of this performance in Delhi?
It will be helpful if you give the location of this performance in all these cities.
Basilio
sorry, about delhi and kolkotta, i dont know. in mumbai its jamshed bhabha (ncpa).
BUT you can check with NSD or the locale goethe institute (max mueller bhavan) or newspaper listings!
if you DO find out, please let us know.
thank you!
@Basillio
In Delhi it is probably part of Bharangam — being held at the NSD — check out the NSD schedule, it’s in one of the halls in Mandi House area, either Kamani or the halls in the NSD premises itself.
Thanx Ramu for the info, have been hearing about it… hope fully will see it