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Folie A Deux
An evening of two solo performances
Performers
“3 am” and “Nobody Cares” looks at the human condition from different perspectives. Movement is at the centre of these nonlinear contemporary dance works. The artists reflect on the mental and physical state of individuals in society today.
‘3am’ (30mins):
Choreographed and Performed by Prashant More
You need to sleep but remain awake, what do you do? – Carl D’Souza.
‘3am’ talk about a situation of an insomniac personality. Struggling to sleep or fighting this sleeping disorder where the body has given up from tiredness and the mind is in complete control. Lying on the bed with closed eyes, where the mind has check-in for multiple flights. Floating in space like a cloud forgotten a way back to home. The hyper active mind filled with thoughts, ideas and anxiety. Running back and forth in the past and future. With the voices and choices who wish to expel. The time on the wall has faded away long back and where reality is no more relevant. The mind has reached a realm which is now difficult to identify the reality and dream.
The artist aims to portray images from an insomniac state of mind through movements, sometimes real and sometimes surreal.
“Nobody Cares” (30mins):
Choreographer and Dancer Deepak Kurki
Music Abhijeet Tambe and Carmen – Habanera
Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy will confront us with a piece in which he explores various effects of the chaotic character of social signifiers, as they are attached to an individual- who was born in a Hindu family, raised in a Muslim neighbourhood and attender a Catholic school. In the critical, but also intimistic piece “Nobody Cares”, the author, who completed his postgraduate studies at S.E.A.D. (Austria), uses movement as a tool in the exploration of social relations and hegemonies, even though they seem to be beyond reason.
Light design for the evening: Niranjan Gokhale
Special Mention:
Abhijeet Tambe, a musician and a sound designer based out of Bangalore, India. He composes music and soundscapes for theatre, film and dance.
Special thanks to Play Practice for studio space
Performers
Deepak Kurki
Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy a contemporary performing artist from Bangalore has been engaged in artistic work as a performer, creator and teacher since the year 2000. With a post graduate diploma in choreography from S.E.A.D in Austria he has trained, worked and presented dance works in India and Europe, and is the co-founder of an art collective- The Kha Foundation.
As a performer he has worked in India, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and UK; and danced in works choreographed by Jeremy Nelson, Samir Akika, Navtej Johar, Sudehas Adhana, Mandeep Raikhy, Abhilash Ningappa, Jayachandran Palazhy, and Liz King as well as toured India, Japan and Europe.
As a choreographer he has worked and created for prosceniums, street performances and site specific dances. He won the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards 2012. He created dance pieces with dancers from Kashmir, Delhi, Bangalore and Europe, and commissioned works at Serendipity art festival in 2018, Youth Festival Delhi in 2017, and the Park festival in 2013. He was part of the creative team for street art projects like AREA 2010 in different cities in Europe and Freedom City 2017 Newcastle U.K. In 2017 Deepak was empanelled into ICCR for his work in the field of dance.
As a teacher he has been a guest faculty at art institutes like Attakkalari, Gati, Stem, Aditi Mangaldas dance company, Dance worx, Rangayana and Motley theatre group in India as well as SEAD and Evanson in Europe. He has been a mentoring creators and dancers as part of KHA foundation, Play Practice, Drishtikon Dance Foundation and Gati dance residencies. He is a visiting dance professor in universities like Ashoka, SNU, and Ambedkar in New Delhi. Between 2002 and 2007 he was part of Education Outreach Program for schools in Bangalore led by Tripura Kashyap.
As an art manager he has been the rehearsal director at Attakklari, Aditi Mangaldas dance company, Project manager at Gati dance and KHA foundation. He also has experience in production and technical managing for stage performances.
Prashant More
Prashant More is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Bangalore, India. He began his dance career as B-boying/Hip-hop dancer in addition to which he also trained in Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical dance) and contemporary dance.
He graduated in Contemporary Dance from Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, India. After which he joined the Attakkalari’s repertory company as a professional dancer and was involved in the company’s numerous performances and productions. Since 2014, he has been working as an independent artist travelling to European and Asian countries in order to perform and deepen his dance education in contemporary dance, art and choreography.
He participated in Choreographic Intensive (SNDO, Amsterdam 2015), Intensive in Physical Experimental Performances (SMASH, Berlin 2015), Interdisciplinary program (Bali, Indonesia, 2015), Flying Low and Passing Through Intensives (Berlin, 2015).
Some of his choreographic pieces include solo works, such as “Give me 5 minutes” “Where should I run” (2015), “3 am” (work-in-progress,2019) and a duet “Another Day” (2016).
Apart from creating his own independent pieces of work Prashant also collaborates with various choreographers and theatre directors from India and other countries. These collaborations include being a performer in “WHO?”, choreographed by Ronita Mookerji and presented as a part of The Outlands Tour in UK; “Architect of Self Destruction”, choreographed by Abhilash Ningappa, which toured India as a part of Prakriti Excellence in Contmporary Dance Awards; “End of the wall” by Atalya Baumer and Tamar Mayzlish (Israel); “Inside out” with Irene Fiordilino (Italy), was performed in UK; “The long and short of it” by Poorna Swami and Marcel Zeas was toured and performed in multiple venues in India, as well as performed in theatre production “Khwaab-Sa”, directed by Atul Kumar (The Company Theatre), which was presented and toured both in India and abroad.
Currently, he is an Associate Artist with Play Practice Artist Residency and also teaches independently in numerous other studios in Bangalore.
