FACETS Choreography Residency 2017

Jayachandran Palazhy - FACETS Director

ayachandran Palazhy, Founder and Artistic Director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts is an internationally sought after dancer and choreographer. Jayachandran trained in India in Bharatanatyam, Kathakali, Indian folk dances and the martial art form of Kalaripayattu. In London, Jayachandran trained at the London Contemporary Dance School and also studied Tai Chi, Capoeira, and African Dance forms. At Attakkalari, Jayachandran directed an exhaustive research and documentation project NAGARIKA - on the movement principles of Indian physical and performance traditions. He was instrumental in launching the online dance journal ‘Ligament’ (2014) with writer-editors Joshua Muyiwa and Deepika Arwind and designer Arjun Shankar-creating a space for conversations emerging from the practice of contemporary dance in the South Asian context. He is also a visiting faculty for Contemporary Movement Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Director of the Attakkalari India Biennial

Hobin Park

With every composition Hobin Park presents, words like inimitable and experimental follow. He has emerged as the one to watch among choreographers on the Korean dance scene. In 1996 he began with the dance company Jobac, and in 2003 he founded Dance Theatre CcadoO as a multimedia dance group. He continues to work actively as a choreographer in varied productions such as dance, theatre, musicals, and opera. He is heralded as someone who lives in the world of mythology and has a profound poetic sensibility; someone who represents modern dance and communicates this art form with the general public. His work coalesces dance, science, multimedia technologies, and sound in unexpected and exciting new ways.

Marcel Zaes

Marcel Zaes is an artist and performer-composer. His radical reductionist interest in the inner materiality of sound leads to work that could belong to the art gallery as well as the concert space or the club. He has traveled and lived in Zurich, Rome, Cairo, Budapest, and is now based in Providence, Rhode Island. The emptiness of the desert, the Roman baroque lyricism, theory of oriental music, the geometry of Zurich graphic design, and conceptual approaches of the New York Downtown Scene - all these influences are audible in Zaes’ sonic landscapes and living installations. He holds an M.A. in Music & Media Arts from Berne University of the Arts, a second M.A. in Music Composition from Zurich University of the Arts, and has additionally completed private composition studies with Alvin Curran in Rome and with Peter Ablinger in Berlin. Currently he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia at Brown University, USA. Many of Zaes’ works have been published by Tonus Music Records, Switzerland, and are internationally showcased.

Samar Grewal

Samar is a musician, composer, and sound designer. He has trained in western classical guitar and has attended Berklee College of Music, Boston (2003-04). Besides composing and performing, he has also written about music as a music editor at Time Out, Delhi and as assistant editor at Rolling Stone India. He composes primarily for theatre and dance and is currently working on some music to perform live.

Claude Parrat

After studying industrial mechanics and electroengineering, Claude Parrat developed and managed a department at Ascom, Switzerland. Actively involved in the field of entertainment since 1992, he has worked as a technical director for various dance and theater companies around the world. Currently he owns and directs a stage construction and equipment business. He has been the head of stage techniques apprenticeship at Manufacture since January 2014.

Antoine Mozer

Antoine Mozer received the CFC Techniscéniste (Federal Certificate of Capacity as a Stage technician) at Manufacture in Lausanne in 2016. This spring, he will work on the Theatre Vidy roadshow tour, and with a company in the Nuihthonie theatre.

Andrés Morte

Samar Grewal is a musician, composer, sound designer and singer. He has trained in Western Classical guitar and has attended Berklee College of Music, Boston (2003-04). Besides composing and performing live, he has also written about music as Music Editor at Time Out Delhi and as Assistant Editor at Rolling Stone India. He works primarily in theatre, dance-theatre and short film and also plays guitar in a very noisy band called Hoirong.