Dec 13 2024 to Dec 13 2024 6 p.m.

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Where

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Kasturba Road, Bengaluru 560001

Event Description

SpeakLore is your destination for all art forms around the Spoken Word. From Puppetry to poetry, from unscripted and spontaneous theatre to age-old traditional storytelling, SpeakLore has it all.         

“Maya'' is a contemporary revival of the Kaavad, wherein artistic collaborators have blended the traditional form with modern ideas and sensibilities.     

About the Performance    

Each aspect of Kaavad has been researched and finely recreated through thorough discussions, exchanges and sharing between representatives of different art forms. It is a composition of finely threaded stories with various mythical characters set in different time and spaces, structured in the ancient format of "KathaSaritaSagar", of frame with-in a frame, where each story leads to a new story, creating a vast network of stories.    

Story: The story of gate-keepers of Kaavad, whose identities are hidden inside Kaavad leads us into the world of mythical, folklore land, where space and time has been intertwined intrinsically. A powerful king - "Mahabali" is on his way to destroy and re-curate the three worlds, and the tales are weaved around our protagonists Ram & Rahim's attempt to stop him. Each tale with-in then explores the multi-facet idea of Maya and how it drives and triggers every aspect of tales and metaphorical our lives. The work, mostly written in Hindi verses, delves into various philosophical questions and human emotions, like duality, passion, love, bravery, moral dilemmas, companionship etc.    

The performance is a result of extensive collaborations between theatre makers, visual artists, musicians, and designers to re-imagine the world of Kaavad katha. 

There will be a short Q&A with the artist to give audiences more insight into this fascinating traditional art form.