December 19 – 21: Bengalaru: Adishakti Retrospective
Himalaya Herbal Healthcare
Presents
Adishakti Retrospective
Event Managed by
India Foundation for the Arts
Himalaya Herbal Healthcare was founded in 1930 with a vision to bring Ayurveda to society in a contemporary form. Himalayas initiative Himalaya for Contemporarization of Indian Heritage aims at popularising traditional Indian art forms by making it accessible to the masses. This modernization could take the form of applying new techniques, placing traditional themes within contemporary settings, relating the traditional to present-day society and so on. The focus is to make traditional Indian art and culture mainstream, without trivialising its core essence. Their aim is to generate interest in these art forms by encouraging its contemporarization.
Adishakti is a performance company engaged in the research and reanimation of traditional knowledges in theatre, dance, music, movement, puppet and craft forms — with a view to creating a contemporary hybrid aesthetic and performance language. The Adishakti Festival brings The Hare and the Tortoise, Impressions of Bhima and Rhinoceros to Bengaluru.
While Adishaktis performances continue to draw on Indian culture and tradition, they have succeeded in creating a contemporary, hybrid and aesthetic performance language. They have also adopted a research-based approach to transforming art. This is synchronous with the spirit of Himalayas initiative.
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) has supported Adishaktis work since 1996 with the most recent grant being the production of The Hare and the Tortoise. This grant was made under IFAs New Performance Programme, 2005-06.
Festival details:
The Hare and the Tortoise
19th December, 2008 at 7.30 pm, Ranga Shankara, Bengaluru
The Hare and the Tortoise develops its case for the importance of being contemporary through two devices. First, it explores the complex ways in which we occupy time by staging a dramatic colloquium between participants in notable inter-civilisational race-fables. The Hare and the Tortoise are the archetypal competitors who represent different ways of understanding temporality. Their race becomes the cover story for a theme, which includes other competing pairs such as Ganapati and Kartik, Ekalavya and Arjuna, Arjuna and Hamlet. Second, to help these fabulistic discussants the better to focus their arguments the play invites them all to comment upon the crisis experienced by William Shakespeares Hamlet; that dramatic protagonist for whom time was always so painfully out of joint.
Impressions of Bhima
20th December 2008 at 7.30 pm, Ranga Shankara, Bengaluru
Impressions of Bhima plays with Bhima of the Mahabharata and his relationship with Duryodhana. It draws on various interpretations of the epic, including subaltern texts.
Rhinoceros
21st December 2008 at 3.30 pm & 7.30 pm (2 shows), Ranga Shankara, Bengaluru
Rhinoceros (French original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play belongs to the school of drama known as the Theatre of the Absurd. The inhabitants of a town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is a flustered everyman figure who is often criticized throughout the play for his drinking and tardiness. The play is often read as a response to the sudden upsurge of Fascism during the events preceding World War II.The play explores the themes of conformity, culture, philosophy, and morality. Issues which are increasingly relevant in todays changing socio-political landscape.
Tickets are priced at Rs 100/- and are available at the following venues:
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225/Y, 100 Feet Ring Road
OPP: Eshwari Theatre IV Phase
VII Block, Banashankari 3rd Stage
Bangalore – 560 085
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Sampige Road, Malleswaram
Bangalore-560003
HIMALAYA HERBAL HEALTHCARE 25255615
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Indiranagar 2nd Stage
Bangalore 560 038
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Cox Town, Bangalore 560 005
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320, 3rd Stage,4th Block
Dr.Siddaiah Puranik Road
Basaveshwarnagar, Bangalore -560 079
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