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| Meidhwani | ||||||||
| 13 January 2012, Abhimanch, 8:30 pm | ||||||||
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(Devised by members of the Attakkalari Repertory) |
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| The Play | ||||||||
| By linking the Tamil and Sanskrit words Mei (body) and Dhwani (echo or suggestion), the word MeiDhwani subtly alludes to echoes of the body in imagined landscapes. The production traverses the urban Indian experience, combining the fragility of solitude, the chaos of turmoil, with the fluidity of movement. In an unraveling spiral, it portrays individuals who are captives of circumstance and history, and traverses universal predicaments creating an individual sensorial narrative that oscillates between the suspended realms of the body and the soul. Fire acts as a metaphor for male energy and a destructive power within, while Water alludes to the ever flowing life stream representing female energy. The metallic pots in the production suggest a contained yet unfathomable feminine infinity contrasted against the phallic, cylindrical oil lamps. Born from in-depth research into Indian performance traditions, MeiDhwani resonates with a collective memory. Drawing sustenance from the distilled clarity of bharatnatyam, and from abstracted animal motifs of the Kerala martial art form kalarippayattu, the movement language conjures latent semiotic traces of inherited physical traditions. | ||||||||
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