Dec 06 2024 to Dec 06 2024 7:30 p.m.

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Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

Embodied exploratory dialogue between a contemporary dancer (Director) and a classical dancer (performer). They collectively delve into the history and techniques of Manipuri dance, a form that both of them embody. Manipuri dance is imbued with religion-cultural sense and sensibility that are often conflicting at times. Through the medium of lecture-demonstration, the performance sheds these layers of Manipuri dance to find answers to what the dance form embodies or what the dancer embodies. Does the core of Manipuri dance lie in the content of the dances or in the traditional restraint and subdued eloquence?    

About the Artist  

Babina Chabungbam is a performing artist with Narmada Cultural Organisation, a Manipuri folk and classical dance group based in Delhi. She is learning dance from Oja Khumanthem Narmada and Oja N. Amusana Devi. She shifts between her lived experience as a performer and her academic engagement to make sense of life and letters of the two different yet similar worlds. She works on Manipuri classical dance- Raas Leela, as a form of embodied culture as well as a site of social, political and cultural contestations. 

Surjit Nongmeikapam(Bonbon) is a choreographer, dancer, movement teacher, and performer artist. He finished his Bachelors's degree in Choreography from Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography, Bangalore. He is trained in classical/ traditional, Indian martial arts to contemporary dance and movement.