Parallel Cities - Delhi 2013 - a part of the 15th Bharat Rang Mahotsav by NSD at Different Venues > 9th-18th January 2013

Entry : by registration only, Registration passes available at NSD from 7 January onwards • For registration enquiries call +91 9582297249 or email: parallelcitiesdelhi@gmail.com
For more information on Parallel Cities visit: www.ciudadesparalelas.com or www.nsdtheatrefest.com/festival.php

Venues : Four venues around Delhi
National Archives Library, Janpath (Library)
National School of Drama ( Meeting Point)
Select CITYWALK, Saket (Shopping Mall)
Sagar Apartments, Tilak Marg (Rooftop)

Event Description : Parallel Cities - Delhi 2013. 

interventions in public spaces curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias
in association with National School of Drama and part of the 15th Bharat Rang Mahotsav 
After Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich and Kolkata, Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias bring PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS) to Delhi. In each city, this portable festival is re-contextualized and staged with local performers.
PARALLEL CITIES DELHI invites artists to devise interventions in public spaces that exhibit parallel existences. Delhi is scheduled to host the project from 9 to 18 January 2013 as part of the 15th Bharat Rang Mahotsav.

Introduction
After Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich and Kolkata, Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias bring PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS) to Delhi. In each city, this portable festival is re-contextualized and staged with local performers.
Shopping malls, libraries and campuses... these are functional places, not usually thought of as interesting. They are to be found in every city, and they are what make cities inhabitable. Their ubiquitous, parallel existences the world over mean these places are 
instantly recognisable, each modelled on similar rules but displaying a local face.
For ‘Parallel Cities Delhi 2013’, Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi have invited several artists to devise interventions in these omnipresent public spaces. Four artists have each chosen a location in Delhi as observation stations for urban phenomena. As observation stations, the project makes a stage out of public spaces, and seduces the viewers into staying inside that space long enough for their perception to change.
The pieces vary in form: You can listen to some of them, while others you can read or feel. The performers include a singer, others writers, passers-by and the audience themselves.Via headphones, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells whisper to us over the silence of a library reading-room.
Mariano Pensotti turns four authors into literary surveillance cameras who describe scenes in a campus hub as they happen. The viewers read the texts as a novel unfolding live on large screens over the heads of its real-life figures.
The Ligna activists choreograph their listeners in a shopping mall, turning their movements into a conspiratorial radio ballet.
And, late in the evening, Stefan Kaegi invites you to a roof with a view over the city to review all these experiences with a visually impaired musician. Rewinding the experiences from his perspective you find yourself wondering what you will remember of the day.
The project makes theatre out of public spaces, and invites the audience to subjectively experience places built for anonymous crowds. Parallel Cities Delhi 2013 offers four perspectives on one city. A festival, that doesn’t transport stage sets or companies of 
actors but ideas. 

Schedule : 

Library 
The Quiet Volume 
Ant Hampton, London and Tim Etchells, Sheffield / New York
National Archives of India Library, Janpath, New Delhi
9 to 11 & 14 to 18 January 2013 / every 20 minutes from 12 noon to 6:00 pm
Duration: 60 mins / Language: English
Two members of the audience / participants sit side-by-side in the library, reading. Taking cues from a series of library cards, marginalia and instructions from the proffered headphones they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books.
Entry: By registration only. 
Registration passes available at National School of Drama from 7 January 2013 onward.

Meeting Point
Sometimes I think, I can see you
Mariano Pensotti, Buenos Aires
With Indian writers Amrita Tripathi, Asif Haider Ali, Divya Guha and Rajesh Tailang.
National School of Drama, Mandi House, New Delhi
10 to 13 January 2013 / continuously between 5:30 to 7:00 pm and 7:30 to 9:00pm
Four authors observe a space from various perspectives. Typing into their laptops, they write live on what they see at the festival venue and other things, too: private observations, things they make up, or historical information. Every word they type is projected onto a large screen, a separate one for each author.
Duration: 90 minutes / Language: English and Hindi 

Shopping Mall 
The First International of Shopping Malls
LIGNA, Hamburg and Berlin
Select CITYWALK , Saket
14 to 18 January 2013 at 6:00 pm 
Duration: 60 minutes / Language: English
The Hamburg-based activists Ligna have been developing radio-ballets as interactive forms of radio-plays – in which audiences almost unconsciously turn into subversive crowds – in festivals around the world. For Parallel Cities they focus on the shopping 
mall as a form of a parallel city.
Entry: By registration only 
Registration passes available at National School of Drama from 7 January 2013 onward.
For registration enquiries call: +91 +919582297249 (from 10 am to 6 pm) /  email: parallelcitiesdelhi@gmail.com) 
or register on the spot 15 minutes prior to the performance.

Roof Top
Review
Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
With  visually impaired musician Dr Priti Prakash Prajapati
Sagar Apartments, Tilak Marg, New Delhi 
9 to 14 January 2013 at 5:00, 6:30 and 8:00 pm 
On winter nights roof-tops become other-worldly spaces. Halfway between the distant street noise and the fog-laden city sky, the audience meets a blind woman. From her perspective, they review what they have seen during the festival, and cast it into her 
acoustic cityscape.
Duration: 60 minutes / Language: English and Hindi
Entry: By registration only.
Registration passes available at National School of Drama from 7 January 2013 onward.