G5A forum presents:

STILLING by Padmini Chettur | In Residence 

Co-produced by G5A forum and BNP Paribas 

In association with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai 

There is a particular stillness produced at the meeting of two counter rotational movements - those which draw arcs around the body’s vertical axis. It is a stillness that contains both beginning and end. Producing a circular time. A stillness of imperceptible oscillation, a place where contradiction is contained rather than dissolved. STILLING is an attempt to create a series of pathways, organizing and re-organizing duality in search of their edge.

10 dancers begin with short studies - as though proposing not only the alphabet, but the choreographic rules as well. They continue to build upon this foundation with almost algebraic precision, producing a complex and dense vocabulary of contradictions. As the performers

navigate the material, they are forced to be disjointed and inter-connected at the same time, inviting us to almost stop remaining witness to an unfolding spectacle, rather to be drawn into the interiority of the counter - a place of disquiet - STILLING.

Schedule

April 04 and 05

18:00 - 20:00 - Workshop

April 10

18:00 - Open Rehearsal

20:30 - In Conversation with Padmini Chettur and Shanti Pillai

April 13

17:30 - Premiere

20:30 - Show 02

April 14

17:30 - Show 03

20:30 - Show 04

Creative Credits

Choreography | Padmini chettur

Music | Maarten Visser

Dancers Anoushka Kurien

        Madhushree Basu

        Ramya Shanmugan

        Aarabi Veeraraghavan

        Sravanthi Vakkalanka

        Pradeep Gupta

        Tushti Aravind

        Priyakshi Agarwal

        Revati Shah

        Masoom Parmar

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