Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Karnatic Kattaikkuttu Short clips
Short edits from the Karnatic
Kattaikkuttu tour
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
Large Open Air Theatre Kala
Academy
8pm 20th Dec 2018
War Dance
choreography by S. Tamilarasi
Edit of the Disrobing of Draupadi excerpt.
With R. Devan as Duhsasana, and S. Tamilarasi as Draupadi, and karnatic singer T.M. Krishna.
Kochi
Biennale
Biennale
Pavillion, Cabral Yard – Fort Kochi
7pm 13th
January 2019
Duryodhana being brought
down to earth
Ranga Shankara,
Bengaluru
7.30pm 18th Jan
2019
Edit
of the Disrobing of Draupadi excerpt.
With R.
Devan as Duhsasana, and S. Tamilarasi as Draupadi, and karnatic singer T.M.
Krishna.
Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) ( Prince of Wales Museum)
Mumbai
7pm 19th Jan 2019
Edit from the extract of The
18th Day of the Mahabharata War with Karnatic performers T.M. Krishna and
Sangeetha Sivakumar, with Kattaikkuttu performers, P. Rajagopal in the role of
Duryodhana on the last day of the war, and A. Kailasam as Kattiyakkaran.
The Secret Life of Seaweed by Julie McKee
https://hbstudio.org/the-secret-life-of-seaweed-by-julie-mckee/
Working on organizing projections and set pieces for this lovely play.
Working on organizing projections and set pieces for this lovely play.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Karnatic_Kattaikkuttu at CSMVS, Mumbai 19th Jan 2019
19th Jan 2019
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) ( Prince
of Wales Museum)
Mumbai
Back drop of lighted museum, walkway between stage and audience
The saris of Draupadi ended up over a hedge which actually looked
beautiful
Karnatic Kattaikkuttu
comes full circle with a concert at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu
Sangrahalaya (Prince of Wales Museum). This is the first-ever collaboration
between two distinct art forms: Karnatik music, the classical music of South
India, and Kattaikkuttu, a Tamil language-based, the physical and vocal form of
rural open-air ensemble theatre with an inherent capacity for comedy and
comment. Nowadays these two forms occupy opposite ends of a spectrum that
divides the Indian performing arts into “classical” and “folk”.
This unique collaboration was initiated and conceptualized by
legendary Kattaikkuttu actor, playwright and director Perungattur P. Rajagopal
and his wife Hanne M. de Bruin (performing arts scholar, dramaturg &
costume designer) and the well-known Karnatic musicians T.M. Krishna and
Sangeetha Sivakumar.
Karnatic Kattaikkuttu is an experimental production in which
Karnatic concert music and Kattaikkuttu theatre collaborate on an equal footing.
The production explores what both forms share, where they differ and how they
“speak” to and with each other. In an exhilarating exchange of repertoire
elements, Karnatic and Kattaikkuttu performers present excerpts from two
all-night plays, Disrobing of Draupadi and The Eighteenth Day.
T.M. Krishna and Sangeetha Sivakumar will be accompanied by the
Karnatic musicians Akkarai Subhalakshmi, (violin) K. Arun Prakash (mridangam)
and S. Krishna (ghatam). In addition to P. Rajagopal in the role of Duryodhana
on the last day of the Mahabharata war, the Kattaikkuttu cast features
actor-singers S. Tamilarasi (Draupadi), R. Devan (Duhsasana), R. Kumar
(Duryodhana), M. Duraisamy (1st Kattiyakkaran), A. Kailasam (2nd
Kattiyakkaran), A. Bharati (Vikarna), S. Srimathy (Karna), S. Haribabu
(Sakuni), S. Gobinath (talam), R. Balaji (harmonium), A. Selvarasu (mridangam
& dholak) and P. Sasikumar (mukavinai).
Sue Rees (tech -
video, set, lights)
Pandian (Sound Tech)
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