Dec 17 2022 to Dec 17 2022 6 p.m.

EVENT HAS ENDED

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Nirali is a collective which practices movement based on Indian classical dance styles. At Nirali we are reimagining pedagogy. We are involved in training,performance building, research, choreography and creation of new work that is personal and political. We aim to create art that finds connections with the times we live in and our lived experiences. We want to create art that moves, questions and makes us think. We nurture reflection, intention, collaboration and creative exploration. Our classes are facilitated and grounded in exchange and participation. Nirali constantly aspires to be a non-hierarchical inclusive space to converse, express, critique and question. We encourage inter-disciplinary methods, new texts, play and a new kind of creative rigour in our process. We hope to inspire many cultural shifts and challenge existing patterns, designs and traditions in the field of movement practice. Hanchike 2022 is the 3 rd edition of Nirali’s annual showcase. ‘Hanchike’ means to share or distribute. This is our way of sharing each of our stories and lives with you through body and movement. Starting very humbly in our home during the pandemic, we have grown bigger and brighter over the past two years. While the last year saw a roaster of solo works built individually with each student along with improvisations in the form and context of Bharathanatyam, this year we have spent time as a group and are now heading in the direction of professional ensemble work. All programmes by student performers in the classical dance fraternity ask the students and parents to contribute to meet its expenses of costume, stage and choreography. We think that this is the inception of 'pay to perform' culture where we normalise this for students and parents early in their dancing career. We are changing this. We are not paying to perform. We are looking for external funding and sponsors to support this cultural shift of honouring all kinds and forms of labour that Hanchike 2022 will bring about. Hanchike 2022 brings to you an evening of new works conceptualised, choreographed and performed by Nirali. Each performance is specially curated to bring to you all that we as a group are grappling with. What better way than the body is there to introduce ourselves and stand as who we truly are? What is gaze and connectedness with an audience and how does one play with that? What are the similarities between the Goddess and the Bharathanatyam dancer and Indian woman ? Why is the parrot crying? How do we rest in Bharathanatyam? What is ‘play’ in a classical form? Can our bodies in performance lead us to realise some truths about our own life? How do new movement vocabularies move through the body? What is the experience of complexly coordinated, perfectly matched bodies in space? How do tell the story of God to children or should we retell it? What will Instagram feel outside our phone and on stage? What kind of citizen is an artist?