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From puppetry to animation

Bangalore: The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is presenting “New Performance Festival” from February 23 to 29, which will bring on stage new productions funded by the IFA.

The performances at Ranga Shankara in J.P. Nagar employ a range of media from digital animation to shadow puppetry and explore unusual themes. The first performance on February 23 is “About Ram” which combines digital animation and puppetry to present an adaptation of Bhavabhuti’s Ramayana. The production explores the “human” dilemmas of the God. The performance will be between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. “Quick Death”, the following day, is a “physical text”, a genre of dramatic literature that depends on written transcriptions of physical actions and gestures to construct the theme, plot, character and spectacle.

It presents Janus, with a double-faced head each looking in opposite directions. Written by Australian playwright Richard Murphet, it will be staged between 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. The performance on February 26 and 27 at 7.30 p.m. will be “The Rhythm Divine” which will present Astad Deboo in collaboration with Guru Seityaban and the Pung Cholom dancing drummers of Manipur.

“Guru Seityaban and I are on the same wavelength. I create a movement. He replicates it in his vocabulary. We create a new phrase, a new idiom, an art of new forms that talk to each other in a contemporary, modern way,” Mr. Deboo says.

The last performance is “Vyuti – Inflections” on February 28 and 29 at 7.30 p.m. which explores the movement principles of Bharatanatya and reinterprets them by giving new spatial and architectural dimensions.

Tickets are available at Ranga Shankara, Supermarket on Brigade Road, Sankar’s Book People on St. Mark’s Road and Jayanagar, 4th Block, Crossword on Residency Road, Oxford Bookstores at Leela Palace and at India Foundation for the Arts at RMV 2nd Stage.

Email: contactus@indiaifa.org or log on to www.indiaifa.org, for details.

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