Fr, 01.04.2016
Launch-Party für Natya Mandir News online

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Zeit: Fr, 01.04.2016, 19:00
Fr, 08.04.2016
Sitar & Tabla
Nordindisches klassisches Konzert
mit
Henning Kirmse - Sitar
Gerhard Rosner - Tabla

Eintritt: € 12,-/10,-
Reservierungen unter: natyamandir@hotmail.com
Ort: Natya Mandir Studio, Börseplatz 3/1D 1010 Wien
Zeit: Fr, 08.04.2016, 19:30
Fr, 15.04.2016
Kirti Ramgopal - Bharatanatyam Tanz
Klassische südindische Tanzvorführung mit Kirti Ramgopal /Bangalore

Kirti Ramgopal aus Indien, Bangalore, erhielt ihre Bharatanatyam
Tanz-Ausbildung bei Padmini Ramachandran, Priyadarshini Govind, Sri A.
Lakshman und Bragha Bessell. Ihr Tanz wird als ausdrucksstark und
lebendig gelobt. Viele Auszeichnungen begleiten ihre Karriere als
Bharatanatyam Tänzerin. Sie gab international Tanzauftritte u.a. in den
USA, Canada und Europa und fand großen Anklang sowohl beim Publikum als
auch bei den Kritikern.
Eintritt: € 15,- / ermässigt € 12,-
Anmeldung: 0676 312 57 36, natyamandir@hotmail.com
Ort: Natya Mandir Studio, Börseplatz 3/1D 1010 Wien
Zeit: Fr, 15.04.2016, 19:30
Vorträge am Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Dr. Tiziana Leucci
(Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud , CNRS)
21. April 2016, 18 Uhr
„The Impact of the Neo-Tantric Movement on the Choreographic Traditions in Europe and India (1960s to 2000s)“
The
presentation will focus on the impact of the Neo-Tantric Movement on
the choreographic avantgardes in Europe and India, from the 1960s
onwards. Three major figures in the international landscape of dance in
these years are chosen to illustrate the phenomenon. After a
chronological analysis of the works of the French choreographer Maurice
Béjart (1927–2007), the presentation will deal with some later stage
productions by two remarkable Indian choreographers and feminist
activists: Chandralekha (1928–2006) and Mallika Sarabhai (b. 1954).
These three “counter-culture” choreographers expressed their own ideas,
quests and struggles by exploring the “shadow and light” in the meanders
of the human mind, body, sexuality and emotions, and by employing in
their choreographies some Indian poems and musical compositions as well
as several abstract symbols and diagrams borrowed from the Tantric
traditions. Special attention will be devoted here to the authors and
literary texts that deeply influenced their artistic work and struggle
eloquently mirroring the con-temporary “love and peace” ideologies of
the hippies, the quests for “oriental” spirituality, sexual liberation
and freedom of expression, the political contestation of conservatism,
racial discrimination and military power, and the support of women's
emancipation, the ecological movement and the human rights movement.
22. April 2016, 15 Uhr
„Dance and Dancers in Indian Cinema“
The
presentation will deal with the crucial role played by dance and
dancers in Bollywood films and forms of regional Indian cinema(s).
Special attention will be paid to the dancers, masters and musicians who
belong to the hereditary communities of artists performing in temples,
at courts and in the setting of the salon (known in South India under
the generic terms devadāsī, rājadāsī and naṭṭuvaṉār) and acted,
choreographed and sang for these movies, making them highly successful.
The lecture will also focus on the speaker’s Bharat Natyam dance
master, the late naṭṭuvaṉār V.S. Muthuswamy Pillai, who worked for
the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, trained quite a number of dancers and
film actresses, and choreographed several items performed by them in
Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies. Interestingly, some members of the
hereditary communities of performing artists found in the cinema a way
to continue practicing their profession, which had been taken away from
them by other communities after the application of the 1947 Devadasi
Act. Stigmatized and criminalized by this law, for a short time they
found some kind of patronage in the cinema, though this was not devoid
of ambiguity.
Dr. Tiziana Leucci is a senior research
fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS),
Paris, and attached to its Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du
Sud. Her Ph.D. thesis in Social Anthropology (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris) dealt with the culture of South Indian
courtesans. Dr. Leucci also studied ballet and contemporary dance at the
National Academy of Dance in Rome and Indian dance (Bharat Natyam and
Odissi) in India. She has authored a book and numerous chapters and
articles on the anthropology and history of dance in South India and on
the European perception and representation of Indian courtesans. Her
further research interests are the history of the interaction between
Indian and Western artists, and the anthropology of aesthetic theories
and Indian choreographic practices, especially in terms of their
transformations in the colonial period and on the modern stage. Since
2010, Dr. Leucci teaches Bharat Natyam at the Conservatoire “Gabriel
Fauré”, Les Lilas – Est Ensemble (France).
Donnerstag, 21. April 2016, 18h c.t. und Freitag, 22. April 2016, 15 h c.t.
Seminarraum 1, Bereich Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde,
AAKH, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7
1090 Wien