"Now Is" Contemporary dance based on Kathak at Kamani Auditorium - 7 pm on 6th & 7th November 09

Time : 7:00 pm

Entry : Invitations available at the Kamani Auditorium

Place : Kamani Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001

Nearest Delhi Metro Rail Station : Walking Distance from Mandi House Metro Station which Comes Under Line 3 ( Indraprastha - Barakhamba Road - Dwarka )
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Event Details : 'Now Is' Contemporary dance based on Kathak.

A simultaneous dialogue between the three art forms of painting, music, and dance that explores the timeless present and is built around the central question: Can one live creatively, live in the ‘Now’? The present carries within it burdens of the past as well as the fantasies of the future. Can these links be broken, so that a timeless moment is born? The philosopher J.Krishnamurti held out an invitation ‘of living in time, timelessly, without the past and the future mingling on the moment.’ Now is explores the theme, “In the NOW is all time, and to understand the now is to be free of time.”      

Now Is will incorporate images of the paintings of the German artist Siegward Sprotte.

Duration : 55 minutes without intermission

Music composition by : Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan

Stage visuals by : Surajit Sarkar and Vani Subramanian

Light design by : Narayan Chauhan

Costumes by : Wendell Rodricks

Danced by : Gauri Diwakar, Dheerendra Tiwari and Aditi Mangaldas

Organized by : Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company - The Drishtikon Dance Foundation

Choreographed by : Aditi Mangaldas

“How does one dance- "In the NOW is all time"? Think of the dance as a Koan. So, the understanding or answer is not gained through analysis but through intuition- It must just occur. I have tried not to transform/ interpret anything- just attempted to realise it, in that moment. Like the Chinese saying goes, Use the body like a flute, lift it up to the wind, it plays itself.”

Visuals: Siegward Sprotte has always tried to affirm the completeness of the now. His paintings are improvisation and spontaneity, a dialogue with the immediacy of the present, for the artist the only true eternity we are capable of experiencing.

Music: “In creating the soundtrack for Now Is, we have in a sense let our musical sensibilities remain as they are - rooted in tradition, but also eager to experiment, and move away from sounds, forms and aural textures that we are familiar with.

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