The festival opens with the critically-acclaimed The Manganiyar Seduction directed by Roysten Abel at the Jayamahal Palace Hotel grounds. The following nine days will see performances on the Centre Stage at venues across the city including Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Ranga Shankara, and Alliance Francaise de Bangalore. Look out for spectacular shows by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Padmini Chettur, Compagnie Revolution, Champloo Dance Company, Cie Greffe, Chunky Move, Felix Mathias Ott, Din A 13 Tanz Company, Cie Laroque, Bereishit Dance Company, Edx2 and Choe Contemporary Dance Company.
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Roysten AbelThe Manganiyar Seduction India Fri 25 Jan 7.30pm (70 minutes) Jayamahal Palace, Jayamahal Road
The Manganiyar Seduction, an alluring theatrical work conceptualised by Roysten Abel, theatre director, weaves together strains of the Manganiyar musical tradition with the visual effect of the red light district of Amsterdam. The Manganiyar musicians are a caste of hereditary singers and instrumentalists based in Rajasthan. Though the community is Muslim, it embraces Hindu deities and festivals.
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Chunky MoveGlowAustralia Sat 26 Jan 7.30pm (30 minutes) Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Glow is an illuminating choreographic essay by Gideon Obarzanek, founding and former artistic director of Australian-based dance company Chunky Move and interactive software creator Frieder Weiss. Beneath the glow of a sophisticated video tracking system, a lone organic being mutates in and out of human form into unfamiliar, sensual and grotesque creature states.Read More& Book Ticket
Compagnie Rêvolution Urban BalletFrance Sun 27 Jan 7.30pm (60 minutes) Chowdiah Memorial Hall,Vyalikaval
Urban Ballet is a work that goes beyond classical dance and hip hop to create a hybrid style that transcends all genres. The work is a skilful melange between classical music and hip-hop inspired movements, and therefore it results in a unique work, that is tinged with the myriad influences of the choreographer.
Inspired by classical ballet, Urban Ballet is composed of four acts that show four incarnations of the body.Read More & Book Ticket
DIN A 13 tanzcompany changeABLE cohesion Germany / Sri Lanka Mon 28 Jan 7.30pm (75 minutes) Chowdiah Memorial Hall,Vyalikaval
The DIN A 13 tanzcompany, one of the few mixed-abled dance companies worldwide presents a works that will nudge unspoken beauty by turning certitudes upside down and revealing the fragility of existence. Six dancers: two women and four men, three with and three without physical disabilities. Six people born into a time in which daily grind can lead through hidden corners into unpredictable ends, in which familiar structures can turn threatening and dangerous and yet remain a thrill. Read More& Book Ticket
cieLaroque / Helene Weinzierlesnes.n.on2Austria Tue 29 Jan 4.00pm (60 minutes) Alliance Française de, Thimmaiah Road
esnes.n.on2 tracks the follies of three people who accidentally meet at an Indian bus station. They are trying to flee the banality of their lives, they stagger around in a quest to find meaning and finally end up in a labyrinth of nonsense.
esnes.n.on2 forces us to reckon that we might attempt to make superficial sense of the world, but in reality we cannot be sure about anything. We shouldn’t want to be, we are not allowed to and soon will not be able to be sure anymore. Read More& Book Ticket
Beautiful Thing 2, choreographed by Padmini Chettur, wields time as a dynamic element in its simple desire to create something that is economic, precise and eventually a beautiful thing. The corporeality of the body is mined for minute movements that are abstracted through the duration of the performance in an attempt to occupy space rather than displace it. The sheer physicality and slowness of the movements demands the audience to gaze, stare and immerse themselves completely just as the performer is.Read More& Book Ticket
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SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUIGlimpsesBelgium Wed 30 Jan 7.30pm (90 minutes) Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Vyalikaval
Glimpses is a suite of four of the best recent duets of Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. One of them he created in close collaboration with French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet. The four duets demonstrate the versatility and innovative character of Cherkaoui's work, who is at this moment considered one of the most inspirational contemporary choreographers in the world.Read More& Book Ticket
Champloo Dance CompanyWhite Caps United Kingdom Thur 31 Jan 7.30pm (60 minutes) Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
White Caps created by self-taught b-boy Wilkie Branson integrates lyrical film with explosive hip-hop and break-dance. The work follows two men out on an epic, arduous personal adventure that reflects the choreographic process of pushing the boundaries of this street dance form to create Branson’s first production that meanders between film and live movement.Read More& Book Ticket
Felix Mathias OttOdyssey ComplexGermany Fri 1 Feb 7.30pm (60 minutes) Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Odyssey Complex, choreographed by Felix Mathias Ott, is an experiment in exploration of this infinite object, a myth, with which we all have multiple connections. The work navigates through this narrative that has over the years entered people’s imaginations through their own experiences and reading. This possibility for a multifarious, open-ended quality of the myth formed the foundation for the work.
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Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker Two works: Lanx / ObtusSwitzerland Sat 2 Feb 7 pm (26 + 35 minutes) ADA Rangamandira, JC Road
In Lanx, an unbroken current moves between the body and the geometrical motifs that surround it. Through balancing on the lines, unfolding its sides, its ridges, its angles, playing with perspectives that continually renew themselves, the body sounds out its potential to inscribe forms in a predetermined space. Through the duration of the work, the body and the decor transform, each seeming to catalyse the other.Read More& Book Ticket
Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker Two works: Lanx / ObtusSwitzerland Sun 3 Feb 12.00 pm(26 + 35 minutes)ADA Rangamandira, JC Road
Obtus begins with a hand. Two arms follow that are reminiscent of flying, head down. The dancer, Tamara Bacci, through these initial gestures begins a persistent exploration of a ray of light. Then through meditative gestures, measured, continuous movements, a body in peril, finds its most beautiful expression when it pushes equilibrium to its limits. In Obtus, the dancer moves with exquisite precision and sensitivity playing with a ramp of neon lights making all of her body or parts disappear. Read More& Book Ticket
Bereishit Dance CompanyBalance and ImbalanceSouth Korea Sun 3 Feb 7.30pm(25 minutes)Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Balance and Imbalance choreographed by Park Soon-ho explores body movements and sounds as the oldest and most basic tools for human beings to express themselves. Having focused on the foundational concept, “body movements and sounds”, the performers present themselves and communicate with others.
In Balance and Imbalance, there is an attempt to look into the sounds made by the body and movements made from this sound. Read More& Book Ticket
Choe Contemporary Dance CompanyArgument South Korea Sun 3 Feb 7.30pm(30 minutes)Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Argument, choreographed by Choe Sang-cheul, features the performers creating and developing images originating from the concept of arguing. The work engages in a fundamental examination of methods for communication in overcoming the anxieties of modern society, focusing on the notions of faulty communication, misunderstanding and the errors that occur in translation.
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EDx2 Dance CompanyModern FeelingSouth Korea Sun 3 Feb 7.30pm(13 minutes)Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Modern Feeling, a duet choreographed by Lee In Soo, explores the relationship between two men through a diverse movement vocabulary of hip hop, acrobatics and martial arts with contact improvisation as the driving basis of choreography. Through these movements, there is an attempt to portray the everyday emotions of encounter, conflict, indifference, competition and through an elaborate arrangement of movement and speed.
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EDx2 Dance CompanyHelpSouth Korea Sun 3 Feb 7.30pm(13 minutes)Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar
Help choreographed by Lee In-Soo investigates the notion of integrating hip hop with different muscle groups and create original contemporary movement. Through various permutations and combinations, a dynamic movement that in the end creates various styles of hip hop of its own. Read More& Book Ticket
