Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/10/2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Co-Bank Towers
Categories
MITHUNA: Indo- French dance performance on 2 October, 6.00pm at Co- Bank Towers.
Mithuna is a Sanskrit concept that contemplates gender and sex; the sex of words, the sex of moments and the sex of beings. It is the conjunction of diversities, the jolting confrontation and contagion of differences, and their fertile and creative seeding. The choreography of Mithuna is devised to reflect upon the universal concepts of attraction and violence between genders, their metamorphoses, the joy and illusion of love, the eternal and necessary quest for understanding and harmony to bridge differences.
It is a meeting between two cultures, France and India, creating an original inter-cultural show with French contemporary creation and Indian traditional Kathakali dance and theatre. It is a fusion performance, mixing French and Indian universe to create a new artistic style.
Mithuna is performed by three artists, Hélène Courvoisier, K. Unnikrishnan Nair and Sadanam Manikandanand choreographed by Annette Leday from La Compagnie Annette Leday/Keli.
About Annette Leday:
Annette Leday is the director and choreographer of La Compagnie Annette Leday/Keli who specialised in inter-cultural contemporary creation, with a focus on the dance and theatre traditions of India and France.After training as an actress in France, she journeyed to India in 1978, studying Bharatanatyam and Kathakali in Chennai. She then spent several years in rural Kerala, practicing and performing Kathakali with the Sadanam and Kalamandalam institutions.
La Compagnie Annette Leday/Keli became famous with their creation of Kathakali-King Lear. This Shakespeare’s adaptation was realised with the help of renowned Kathakali masters at the time. It has been played more than 70 times in Asia and Europe during big festival (Edinburgh, Shakespeare’s Globe etc).
Mithuna was presented during IGNITE! festival at Delhi, on January 2015. it was also performed at the famous Théâtre du Soleil in April 2015.
Entry free
