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Positive Lives is a
dance-visual montage presentation that tells the story of people living with
HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Through a unique marriage dance music and photography, the
montage seeks to eliminate stigma and reduction against PLWHA, which prevents
them from living with dignity and realizing their full potential as citizens of
India.
The production is a joint
initiative of Sapphire, an experimental dance company; SPARSHA, a support
agency for PLWHA and their friends, and SAATHII, an agency that provides
capacity building support to HIV/AIDS service providers.
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SOULS IN TRANZIT, a presentation mentored by Chitra Sundaram of UK and
Harikrishnan of Canada in a program for dancers and movement
artistes organized by Alliance Franchise and www.narthaki.com in Chennai in August.
The dancers created this new work with the guidance of the above mentors.
It was premiered to rave reviews in Kolkata in January 2008 at Palladian
(Bengal Chamber of Commerce)
Dwaitagati
An acrobatic duet which is ferocious and sensuous at the same time set
to the international music of Bond, this piece is a sheer treat .Performed across
at various venues in India
, it has been critically acclaimed everywhere.
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Walking down Arun Kolatkar’s
Lane – A Performance using dialogue, verse and music to explore the reclusive
poet’s mind.
This is based on a single
meeting between a woman journalist and Arun Kolatkar, one of the finest
contemporary poets of India,
at a restaurant in Kolatkar’s favorite Kala Ghoda area in old Mumbai.
Years after that meeting,
when the journalist learns of Kolatkar’s death, she recalls how she first heard
of the man in her girlhood, read his poems in her college days, and how deeply
they affected her perspective. She trances the events that led to her encounter
with the reclusive man, and relives her interview with him,. As they talk, the
poems come alive and are performed against a sounds cape of music. Their talk
begins with wariness and some suspicion, but ends on a moment of intimacy.
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In
each play, two strangers, a Man and a Woman, claiming different racial origins,
meet by accident in a public space in the U.S. As they share confidences and
spill secrets, the casual encounters trigger reflection.
The
characters wonder : can they hold on to values after all, and resist the
bloodtide swelling around them?
Can
they believe that beauty and compassion are as real as their everyday fear and
pain?
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Everyday : Anupama
Srinivasan A reflection on
relationships. A story of a pigeon - 7 minutes Manpasand – The Perfect
Match :
Dhwani Desai
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Taaza Khabar: Bishakha
Dutta
An
all-woman team of journalists publish “ Khabar Lahariya “ from a small town in Uttar Pradesh, covering all
the news that the mainstream media forgot -
31 minutes Migration : Mira Nair
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M S Amma : Swati
Thiyagrajan
A
shy girl from Madurai
. A journey into the life and times of legendary M S
Subalakshmi through the eyes of her granddaughter – 22 minutes The Birth of a Brain Fly : Nandita Kumar
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The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts.
The non-fiction feature film is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay, which, generally, are not part of the popular narratives.
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