IFA@Bangalore | Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices | Workshop Registration | Decoding intimacy, desire and affect By Mandeep Singh Raikhy | October 30, 2019 (CLOSED)
Register for an opportunity to engage in conversations around the relationship between
performance, activism, gender and sexuality in India
About the Workshop:
The workshop aims to bring together the participants and collectively broadening our understanding of gender, sexuality and desire through references to the choreographic work Queen-size. By watching short clips of the work and unpacking it in discussion, the participants will be encouraged to deconstruct and read the work through the lenses of action, affect and interpretation as well as experience some of the movement propositions explored in the work.
Through an introduction to Queen-size's choreographic structures, its triggers, creation process and challenges, the workshop proposes to open out questions around aesthetics, intimacy and viewership. With a discussion on the performance's relationship with Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, along with references to the history of the struggle against 377 in India, the workshop will open a discussion on the political potency of performance and its particular relationship with sexuality and activism.
About the facilitator:
Mandeep Singh Raikhy is a dance practitioner with a particular interest in exploring the intersections between dance creation, performance, research and pedagogy. Since 2009, Mandeep is managing director at Gati Dance Forum, Delhi. He is currently assistant professor at the MA Performance Practice (Dance) of Ambedkar University, Delhi. He began studying jazz at age 19 at Danceworx, New Delhi, and his subsequent interest in contemporary dance took him to London where he completed a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Since 2010, Mandeep has created several dance works, notably Inhabited Geometry (2010), a male ant has straight antennae (2013) and Queen-size (2016). These works have travelled across the country and internationally over the years including Kampnagel, South Bank Centre and Singapore International Arts Festival. He received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under its Arts Practice programme, to support a series of workshops in five cities of India, pegged around the performance piece Queen-size.
Workshop Details:
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue: Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
New Building No. 7, 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru - 560 071
Maximum number of participants: 20 (By registration only)
Eligibility: All are welcome
This workshop is free, but participation is by Registration Only
Deadline for registration is on or before Friday, October 18, 2019
Please register with your name, contact number and email by writing to darshana@indiaifa.org. All slots will be allocated on first come, first served basis.
This workshop is a part of Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices, an arts festival brought to you by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre, bringing together 40 diverse artistic expressions under six themes of Interrogating Pasts, Confluence of Forms, Engaging Communities, Making Meanings of Myths, Thinking Audiences and Imagining Futures through panel discussions, performances, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions. This festival will be held over three days on October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019 at Bangalore International Centre.
Click here to know more about Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices.
We would like to thank our philanthropy partners – Bangalore International Centre, Biocon Limited, C. Krishniah Chetty Group Of Jewellers, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, RMZ Foundation, Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation, and Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao; and outreach partner – Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru, for supporting this festival.