Padmini Chettur’s ‘Stilling’ was staged as part of ‘Holding Space’ in Alipore Museum
Since 2018, the pickle Factory Dance Foundation has been a ‘holding space’ for “practice, discourse and dance and movement work” within unusual places in Kolkata. In his judicial fifth season, he invited the audience to join the ‘Holding Space’ for the agitation doctors presenting the work, which does not subscribe to the modern-day metrics of “fast, high, strong”.
The incident spread over three weeks, as Luxembourg, is a dance company that works at the intersection between the movement and the media. He presented Shoot cameramanWhich mixes contemporary dances with live camera-work (choreographed cameraperson) to offer dual rendering of work to the audience-on the stage and on the screen. This Juxtaposing changed his head to the concept of ‘watching faith’.
Aurovella-based Edishakati brackets on the first weekend of performance, workshops and public engagement with Nimmi Rafael UrmilaThrough the character of Laxman’s wife Urmila, the play opens the value paying women for obedience.

Nimmi Rafael Urmila,
In the second week, focus on three performing units. The work of Chennai -based choreographer Padmini Chettur was presented through video installation with single and group shows; Glasgow-based choreographer-Dancer Solen Vanachter’s solo AfterAnd Dramturg Marcel Schwald and choreographer Chris Leyenberger’s finished swiss pair Ef_Feminity,
Padmini’s video installation appeared in the user was distillation of her on-gining choreographer inquiries. in setting stillMany disgruntled organs are set at the same time to consciously engineer groups of unlocking and locking muscles can be made engineers to make rotation. In the live performance version, re -staging two gel cells and an open courtyard in the Alipore Museum, a former gel, Padmini built on these letters. He choreographed the full sentences of phrases and these rotational movements through the sequence of the moving bodies of eight dancers, which attracted the viewer to focus on the smallest movements that were in large tasks before returning the Domino-Aid to the early position. In PuffyA four-channel video-installation made with five dancers of the Anandam Dance Theater in Toronto, Padmini’s body has the ability to choreograph the body in an accurate equipment that slices and shapes space had surfaced. His single, Philosophical act 1The heavenly art writer Aveek Sen interacted with the voice and lesson, to unpack Padmini’s choreographers, which was supported by long -term collaborative Marten Visar.
Sollen Vanachter’s single After
Clever single After He was brought together with a heartfelt story tell; To highlight the concept of laughable as fluid, excellent dance tricks and laughter. One minute, the audience with him was his uncle’s funeral and next, he was present in him. One minute, they were filling their feet for Donna Summer’s disco anthem, ‘I feel love’ and then next, they threw a rose over it. Each heartbeat of humor or heartbeat was distributed with honesty and each step seemed to be comfortable and impostor but it was not. Venachhartar subtle, luxurious, changes volumes, energy, chaos and in the end, we felt that we would also be allowed to mourn the personal loss. After It was so accurately performed that it was reminiscent that grief does not have a shed-card; And watching mined dances from these deep vaults can be medical or treatment but can never be medical.
Swiss artists Shwald and LuNberger worked with contemporary choreographer Dia Naidu, radio personality and actor Shiloka Mukti and Theater Practitioner Living Smile Vidya Ef_FeminityThis work changed the spotlight on every relationship of the artist, with the perceptions of enthusiasm. Each of the artists remained silent, not actually in conversation with each other. One of the elements in which it came was the sound – leauneburger’s sweet voice, Naidu’s gutural screams, Mukkati’s protesting panting and smiley piercing laughed. These voices disintegrated through the silence of the Alipore Museum reminds one of the essays of classist Anne Carson Sound of soundIn addition to the way speeches and sounds have been gender, she writes about a Greek festival, where women were generally expected to remain silent, ‘ugly things’ could say loudly. But deploy this device with more Learn Maybe this work has been made effective.
Marcel Schwald and Leuenberger’s Ef_Feminity
The fifth season of the pickle factory concluded with Tanjbar Bremen, can you read my body and Kapila Venu Saiva Kothu.
Curateing this set of work, the pickle Factory Dance Foundation has proved that it is not a gatekeeper, but also respects success and wrong-changes equally, but only respects the platforms more than the effort.
Published – March 14, 2025 05:39 pm IST