Event Details
- Start Date 02/11/2026
- Start Time 19:30
- End Date 02/11/2026
- End Time 21:30
- Location Bangalore International Centre
Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Domlur
Age suitability : 13+
The12th Attakkalari India Biennial in collaboration with the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, presents LONO – The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Sara Angius from Germany.
Somewhere a woman is sitting at a table.
Her memories and visions of the future are illuminated by a seemingly banal table lamp. The lamp tirelessly tries to dominate, in the uneven woman-lamp duo.
Time does not seem to pass, but rather seems to drift according to different rules than in the real world.
LONO presents a look at inner conflict and human consciousness that simply cannot be extinguished. The lamp and the performer establish a dialogue between conscious and unconscious, concrete and abstract, deceiving the eye of the spectator, playing on the perception of the real and the non-real and thus bringing on stage the element of illusion: who manipulates whom?
This leads tacitly to resignation, to acceptance of this absurd state of existence in which the soul never stands still, but hovers in a permanent dynamic balance between what was of us and what will be of us.
Dance and puppetry come together without words and very simply to create a touching reflection on a central illusion of human existence that makes you smile as well as think – to ultimately strike with unexpected depth.
Sara Angius is a contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Braunschweig (DE) since 2013. She is part of the management team of TANZKOOP, a cooperative of dance artists founded in 2022 to sustainably stabilise the production and working structures of the independent dance scene in Braunschweig and Lower Saxony. After joining the permanent company of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, she danced in various companies in the international independent scene, including the Xie Xin Dance Theatre (Shanghai, China) and with James Thierrée, and developed her work by establishing herself in the independent scene and as a guest at various permanent theatres in Germany, including the Stadttheater Gießen, Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig, Theater Hameln, Deutsche Oper am Rehin, Düsseldorf.
Sara Angius has received awards for her own short choreographies at various international competitions, including the 17th International Solo Dance_Theatre Festival Stuttgart 2013 and the International Choreography Competition Hanover.
Her research has developed in a multidisciplinary direction, incorporating puppetry, object manipulation and illusion into her choreographic language.
