When dance is seen as a language of the body, it becomes inevitable to question the limits of the body. Starting from our bodily histories to the surrounding discourses on practice, politics and culture, the move within the contemporary idiom is concerned with the need to interrogate our process and position in contexts that are rapidly changing.
Does the nature of choreographic practice change with each new context, or is there a constant set of principles that define what the practice is? How do we evolve as practitioners?
March Dance 2019 raises the question and from a range of differing perspectives challenges our understanding of creation and performance, while promoting enquiry into the creative process as a whole.
In a coming together of improvisation, performance and research, this edition of the festival seeks to make the questions around dance and the body more pertinent to how we locate ourselves as critical beings, constantly redefining our relationships to history, politics and practice.
-The Basement 21 Team
Musician Maarten Visser and theatre/visual artist Pravin Kannanur lead a workshop on modes of listening and responding between practitioners of different arts.
Anna Huber from Switzerland, critically acclaimed as a performer and soloist, visits
the architecture of the body in a workshop.
the architecture of the body in a workshop.
Peer sharing, sessions meant for the workshop participants and other associates of the contemporary art community in Chennai to share part of their works to the peers present in the festival. Conversations with the artists and other moments from the festival.
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