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| Dravya Kaya | ||||||||
| 21 January 2012, Meghdoot 3, 5:00 pm | ||||||||
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Choreography: Navtej Johar |
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| Dravya Kaya (dravya is object and kaya means body) is a work that focuses upon select objects or props from the Ramayana. It is an attempt to reclaim, or rather reinvent Rama by entering his story through the neutral agency of objects. The work attempts to imagine the visceral exchange between these objects and their human users! It explores the tenacity of Rama’s Kodanda bow; the sensuality of valakala vastra or the bark garment that Sita is ordered to wear when banished into the forest; the inside/outside dialectic as it pertains between the free expanse of the earth and the binding propensity of food/hunger through the episode of Lakshmana Rekha; and finally the quality of rock-headedness of a mob, however devotional, be it the innocent vanarasena or the army of monkeys who bridge the ocean to enable Rama to cross over to Lanka, or the swayamsevaks who demolished the Barbari mosque in 1992. Dravya Kaya is an attempt to deliberately shift the focus from the venerated super-human characters of this religious story and instead attend upon the neutral properties which they wield or engage with, in the hope to render their personas more human. | ||||||||
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