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A Hindi adaptation of Jean Racine’s Phedre directed by internationally acclaimed French director Astrid Bas.
Mallika Sarabhai stars as Phedra with supporting cast from the Darpana
Performing Group.
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A Indo-US-Australian collaborated multimedia dance spectacle, Devi, the
Goddess, takes many forms and names in India, reflecting the deep
Indian notion that creation and destruction constitute an ongoing
cyclical process. Devi is sensuously seductive and deadly in combat,
the Great Mother who reveals herself in her creative and destructive
aspects.
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Ancient traditions confront the modern world in FLASH. The creative
team has united professional artists from Canada, USA, Vietnam, Japan,
Taiwan, and Mainland China to represent the new school in martial arts,
Chinese acrobatics, modern dance, circus and film. On stage, beautiful
bodies engaged in death-defying feats of strength and flexibility, live
musicians mixing a soundtrack of classical Eastern music with the music
of urban Asia,and VJ-producing film projections provide a high-tech
video backdrop.
FLASH
(presented in dvd) is the first multimedia circus show to adapt Western
production values, theatrical staging, and acrobatic choreography to
the Eastern esthetic instead of viceversa. It is a surprising portrait
of modern cosmopolitan Asia: the youth struggling to find a voice in
the masses, an emotional high tension wire between East and West.
Jerry
Snell will discuss how to direct this style of multi cultural fusion,
and James Tanabe will explain training at the National Circus School of
Canada (partner of Cirque du Soleil), and directing acrobatics for
theatrical creations. Followed by a short history of New Circus in
Canada and it's development in Asia and questions and answers with the
public.
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| Physical training ; participants will be trained by one of the
latest graduates of the National Circus School of Canada and physical
actor/ acrobat, James Tanabe (co director of New Circus Asia).
Exercises in balance, fighting, mime, clown, timing, partnering
acrobatics and physical awareness and on stage safety. (30th December 2007, 3:00 p.m to 7:00 p.m)
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Linda Wetherill, an internationall renowned Western flutist along with
Darpana's Carnatic musicians will end the festival with this unique
musical collaboration. The concert will blend the sounds of the East
and the West to create new musical languages. She will also play world
composer Joel Thome's piece 'Savitri - Flame Of the Future' based on
the book of the same name by Sri Aurobindo.
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