Ambimama - India

India Foundation for the Arts and Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts
in association with SPINZ present
CHRONOTOPIA
A new multi-media dance performance:
Time 7.30 pm, Feb 18th 2009, Wednesday at
The Music Academy

Choreographed by Mr Jayachandran Palazhy and the dancers, Attakkalari
Supported by India Foundation for the Arts

Brief note on Chronotopia:
Inspired by the Tamil epic `Chilappathikaram’, Attakkalari’s multi-media dance production, examines the plight of an individual in these tumultuous times, where spaces - internal and external, empirical and imagined, historical and contemporary as well as mythical, cultural and spiritual appear and disappear in one’s life in an unreal fashion as if one is on a journey, dislocating chronology.

The performance by Attakkalari’s talented Repertory, anchors on a central female character represented by three dancers. Chronotopia’s unique abstract movement vocabulary reflects and embodies the human circumstance, and in the process, time dissolves and dislocates, infusing the landscape with tenderness and loss.

Highly pixilated traces of projected images (Christian Ziegler) , complemented by abstracted light installation ( Chris Salter and Marje ), create an interactive context for the evocative performance, highlighted by Thomas Dotzler’s restrained and refined light design.

Intricate choreography by Jayachandran Palazhy (along with the dancers) is set to an original, vibrant and melodic score by French composer Mathias Duplessy, (created in collaboration with Carnatic musicians from Bangalore).

Emotional, haunting and introspective, CHRONOTOPIA is an ode to the senses, a magical tour de force through the voyage of life

Chronotopia was funded under India Foundation for the Arts’ New Performance Programme, 2006-07.

Ticket available at : Landmark (Nungambakkam, Spencer Plaza & Citi Centre), The Madras Terrace House, Royapeth & Chamiers (Chamiers Road)

For Telebooking please contact: 9884015641
Tickets: Donor Passes (Rs 1000), Rs 500, Rs 300, Rs 200 and Rs 100