Choreographer: Rathimalar Govindarajoo
Dancers: Rathi, Divya Nair, Geethika, Tan Mei Mei, Talyssa, Sivagamavalli, Nalina Nair, Jyotsnaa.
Music Composer: Edwin Anand
Lighting & Set: Sivarajah Natarajan
Tarikan!, by Sutra Dance Theatre
A Sutra Dance Festival 2012, which celebrates the continuum of dance which characterises Asian dance-particularly the Indian dance to both the modern and traditional.
Sutra Dance Theatre is not only known internationally for its excellent productions of Indian classical dance but is a leading dance company in Malaysia with impressive contemporary
modern dance repertoires rooted in Asian dance traditions. Tarikan! is Sutra's first major production in Malaysia for the year 2012. Tarikan!, with its three featured productions,
will be a good occasion for KL audience to savour the full range of Sutra's artistic creativity of modern and traditional works, from both Sutra's newly commissioned and established
repertoires.
TRANSFIGURATIONS
Venue KLPac (Pentas 2)
Wed 29 August, Gala Night (by invitation only)
30, 31 August & 1, 2 Sept (Thurs--Sun)
8.30pm Tickets RM 43
For tickets tel 03 4047 9000 or see www.klpac.com
Transfigurations features world premiere of two contemporary modern works: She Ra, choreographed by Dutch-born Kalpana Raghuraman (Korzo Theater, The Hague) and Panjara, by Sutra choreographer Rathimalar Govindarajoo. The two works examine myths-the archetypes of mythology and how their avatars perpetuate these in our contemporary psyches through various transfigurations.
Panjara takes its cue from the present scenario, in which a majority of women are disenfranchised and suppressed. How far can women compromise what is due to their rights as human beings when they are denied the full range of their dynamism in this fast changing world?
Enquiries:
tel 603 -- 4021 1092 (office hours, Mon -- Fri)
sutradancetheatre@yahoo.com
For more information: www.sutrafoundation.org.my
Choreographer's notes:
During work in progress: thoughts, ideas and where it derived from...
Notes:
This is my choreography here's what I'm playing with: Found this on the web... and hoping to make some sense out of it -- and figuring out how would one interpret this in a dance?
"Suffrage has not been a stepping stone to full equality for women. One problem was that once suffrage was achieved, the common ground among women fighting for it was lost..." (AMBIGA BERSIH / LADY GAGA) Good or bad?
The box/cube represents : society, rules, culture - the suppression of women (especially Asian women)
Dance flow theme : TIMELINE - Evolution of women (20 minutes)
movement 1 - Traditional
movement 2 -- Rebellious/ Change
movement 3 -- Change / fight for freedom... equality
movement 4 - Strength/Weakness?
FINALE End - Male domination?
(a male musician will be constantly on stage moving from one lighting spot to the other - music is being composed by a local rising star, young artist Edwin Anand Ananthan - I am working closely with Edwin on the music. (We are trying to incorporate traditional and modern music. It is crucial to develop a local signature of Dance and Music for this project!)
Title: Panjara -- in sanskrit means 'cage'.
Synopsis:
Throughout all these myths, Women are identified with both creation and protection. She is described in terms of fertility and reproduction; by creating mankind from her own epidermis, and subsequently sustaining them through Earth's bounty, she is the First, and pre-emanate Mother - Mother's for peace, Mother's for nature! As the Female principal; the Goddess who is life-giving, life sustaining, and life-producing.
However, in the current world, are Asian women seen as sexual accessories to the world while suppressing their own existence? The women of the future are willing to hock their identities while toiling to build new lives but are they being begrudged the right to take simple pleasure in their own identities? Are women biologically inferior to men? Why do women accept their inferior position in society? Is it because it is part of their culture?
Can these women succeed in the fight for liberation to shape and change the cultures to which they belong?
Is it something in a culture that oppresses women?
"I will tell you why," she said to him.
"You are male and I am female.
"You are of sky and I am of earth.
"You are constant in your brightness, but I must change with the seasons.
"You move constantly at the edge of heaven, while I must be fixed in one place...
"Remember, as different as we are, you and I, we are of one spirit. As dissimilar as we are, you and I, we are of equal worth...Unlike each other as you and I are, there can be no harmony in the universe as long as there is no harmony between us." (Zolbrod 1984: 275)
*Zolbrod, Paul G, 1984. Dine bahane'. University of New Mexico Press.
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