December 2-6, 2009
The Park's New Festival Edition III

Prakriti Foundation hosted the Park's New Festival for the first time in 2007. In the past two years, we had presented works by leading performers like Dr. Mallika Sarabhai, play by the Vayu Naidu company U.K, a solo performance by Preethi Athreya, Dance performance by Dance Routes Bhubaneshwar showcasing the Raghurajpur Lila Project by Dr. Rekha Tandon, Play - 'Jazz' reminiscing on the blue and Jazz players/singers in the 50 & 60's of Bollywood by Ramu Ramanathan, about Ram a play by Anurupa Roy, Padmini Chettur's group dance performance 'Pushed', an experimental Kathakali performance 'Buddha Chartitram' by Probal Gupta, an installation work 'On Seeing' by Zuleikha Allana and Play - '60 Seconds Deep' by Jaimini Pathak.

The Park's New Festival was also presented in July 2008 at Delhi with the excerpts of the Park's New Festival edition I to a wide critical acclaim.

“We are proud to present edition III of the Park's New Festival with an exciting range of varied international performances from countries ranging from Germany to Korea to United States of America. Since the new India of our time is now a cultural tipping point for world cultures to come and engage with our audiences, allowing us to partake many exciting global cultural performances. While we continue to send the ambassadors of culture I am proud to say, the Park's New Festival has become a space for contemporary work from the globe, to be presented to the discerning Indian audiences”
- Ranvir Shah - Artistic Director - Park's New Festival.

This year also the Park's New Festival will be presented in its entirety in Chennai and excerpts will be presented in Delhi.

THE PARK's NEW FESTIVAL Edition III
2nd to 6th Dec'09

2nd Dec'09, 7 pm
Ice Or Water in association with the Inko Centre
Director: Park Hong -ki
Venue: Museum Theatre

Modern dance choreography of eight dancers choreographed by Park Hong-Ki of the Daegu City Modern Dance Company in Daegu, Korea, which mixes memory and movements to skillfully transform a childhood game into the aesthetics of contemporary dance.

3rd Dec'09, 7 pm
Dastangoi Performance
Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Dan Ayyar
Venue: Museum Theatre

The lost art of magical storytelling in Urdu, revived recently to great national and international acclaim. Popular in India since at least the eleventh century, the romance acquired immense prestige because of Emperor Akbar's personal interest in the form. With its transmission into Urdu, the Dastan of Amir Hamzah came to acquire the mammoth, epic proportions that are peculiar to Indic story-telling. As well as being performed they also came to be printed. Completed in 1905, the forty-six volumes of the Dastan-e-Amir Hamza were an extraordinary achievement: not only the crowning glory of the Urdu dastan tradition, but also surely the longest single romance cycle in the world literature.

4th Dec'09, 7 pm
From Madison to Madurai: 134 Days in Mother India
Performer: H.R.Britton , USA
Venue: Museum Theatre
A monologue by H.R.Britton based on his visit to India and going to pilgrimage sites as a wide-eyed seeker, and about the awkward situations he got into with his naiveté.

5th Dec'09, 7 pm
Tilt
Choreographer: Anusha Lall
Venue: Chandra Mandapa, Spaces

Tilt - a dance performance in the round. Using the movement vocabulary of Bharatanatyam as a starting point, it attempts to discover fresh dynamics and create new perspectives, both, in the way that it is performed, and in the way it is viewed.

6th Dec'09, 6 pm
Shiv Shakthi
Performers: Dhruba Ghosh in Sarangi and Ernest Rombout in Alto Oboe
Organizer: Rokus De Groot
Venue: Kalakshetra Auditorium.
Shiv Shakthi is a musical performance by Dhruba Ghosh, sarangi and Ernest Rombout, alto oboe, in duetto. The theme would be ShivaShakti, elaborated through 3 sets of ragas: Raga's Shankara - Durga , Bhairav - Bhairavi, Darbari or Jaunpuri - Asavari (or alternatively: Malkauns - Durga).

Love, Death, and the Devil
in association with the Goethe-Institute/Max mueller Bhavan, Chennai
Director: Ben J.Riepe
Venue: Kalakshetra Auditorium

Love, Death and the Devil is a five-part series of dance performances. They create whimsical worlds with beautiful - comical - surreal scenes, working along the border to visual arts, painting, photography and film. The actors move with a reduced, formal language of movement in engrossed artificial worlds, turning to the absurd when confronted with mundane concerns and their various states of emergency. Tension mounts, at all points ready to break out - into comical or dramatic directions

Donor passes: Rates for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th - Rs.500 & Rs.300 and for 5th - Rs.300/-
Sseason donor passes for Rs.1000 available at
Nuts 'n' Spices - Adyar
Nuts 'n' Spices - Anna Nagar
Silkworm Boutique - Khader Nawaz Khan Road
Landmark - NungambakkamColour Plus - Spencer Plaza
For details call media mix at 98846 63342 or Prakriti Foundation at 66848506

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