ATTAKKALARI – CONTEMPORARY INDIAN DANCE WORKSHOP WITH JAYACHANDRAN PALAZHY Now accepting Expressions of Interest
30 Jan – 3 Feb
10am – 4pm
Drill Hall, Rushcutters Bay
Open to 10 NSW choreographers/dancers. A small daily participation fee will be offered to confirmed participants.
Email expressions of interest (one paragraph bio and a few lines stating why you are interested in this workshop) to Helen Martin, Program Manager at projects@criticalpath.org.au by close of Monday 16 Jan, 2012.
Working with Jayachandran Palazhy, participants of this workshop will be introduced to the concepts embedded in the Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam and martial art Kalarippayattu. The use of gravity, neurocentric movement ideas, breath and centering of the body will be investigated. Delicate micro-movements and the use of eye focus in augmenting or dilating a movement as well as macro movement; surprise, contrast, will be addressed.
Attakkalari’s unique contemporary movement vocabulary will be introduced through short sequences. This vocabulary incorporates principles of Indian performance and physical traditions. Improvisation tasks based on concepts, ideas and themes chosen by the group or introduced by the facilitator will be initiated. This is a very intense workshop and requires attendance for the entire duration. Participants will need to be open to new movement vocabularies: they need to be open to martial art (Kalarippayattu, Capoeira etc.), and vocabularies dealing with intricate and delicate micro movements such as Bharatanatyam.
About Jayachandran Palazhy
Jayachandran Palazhy is an internationally sought after dancer and choreographer and the Artistic Director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore. He has trained in India in the dance forms of Bharatanatyam, Kathakali, Indian folk dance and Kalarippayattu (martial art), and in the UK, in Contemporary dance at the London Contemporary Dance School. He has also studied Ballet, Tai Chi, Capoeira and African Dance and has toured widely in India as well as internationally. He works extensively as a consultant in different parts of the world and is at the forefront of the contemporary Indian movement arts scene.
In addition, he has participated in artistic residencies internationally, presented papers and lecture demonstrations on subjects related to movement arts, and been the recipient of several awards. Jayachandran has directed an exhaustive research and documentation project NAGARIKA – an interactive information system on Indian physical traditions – that aims to extract knowledge about physical movement and its context in these traditions and to present this information in the easily accessible form of an interactive DVD. The first phase of the project resulted in an interactive DVD on the movement principles of Bharatanatyam and the second DVD focused on the ancient martial art form ‘Kalarippayattu’. He is also Director of the Attakkalari India Biennial (International Festival of Dance and Digital Arts).
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