"Black Pot & Movement - Touching Manipur" dance performance Installation by Surjit Nogmeikapam, Mayuka Ueno-Gayer at The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV > 12th April-4th May 2013

Time : 
12th April : 7:00 pm - Dance Performance
13th April to 4th May : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sundays & Holidays closed) - Installation

Entry : Free

Place : The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi - 110024

Venue Info : www.jfindia.org.in | Map | Events | Nearest Metro Station - 'Moolchand(Violet Line)'

Event Description : 'Black Pot and Movement - Touching Manipur' installations by two contemporary dancers – Surjit Nongmeikapam(from Manipur) & Mayuka Ueno-Gayer (from Japan), searching for new movement patterns. The dancers met in Manipur to explore the region through the prism of bodily movements.
As a part of North East India, Manipur presents various socio-cultural particularities. The dancers picked Longpi Pot as an interface between the body and the region. This hand-made pot-making culture of Manipur is preciously preserved within a few families of Eastern Manipur, famous for their skills in crafting these singular black pots. The aesthetic of this black pottery is characterized by plasticity and irreversibility, a duality it shares with the human body. 

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