Season 24/25
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TODAY at the warehouse | playbill
Dohā by Bijayini Satpathy
28 June, Saturday, 19:00
Dohā, or couplet, is Bijayini Satpathy’s first evening-length choreography. Navigating the relationship between prayer and play, the work is a culmination of her year-long residency at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2022-23.
The idea of prayer is central to the Odissi dance form, and much of the traditional repertoire addresses or praises a deity. In this work, however, Bijayini abandons theistic depictions to emphasize the bhāva – the emotional experience – of prayer as an embodied human act. Through intricately patterned choreography, she constructs her own solitary rituals, oscillating between precision and spontaneity. Within the strictures of ritualized prayer, she embraces play and playfulness as an essential part of the individual’s search for the divine.
Bijayini’s long-standing interest in expanding Odissi’s physical vocabulary finds new direction in this work, which looks beyond gestural ornamentation. Here, Bijayini hones in on the skeletal nuances of Odissi’s lexicon to find abundance and sensuality within a more austere palette. She also moves away from textual narrative and performs only one couplet of poetry, written by the 18th-century Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir. The lines address neither god nor beloved. Instead, they talk about slowing down even the smallest breath to appreciate the fragility of the universe.
لے سانس بھی آہستہ کہ نازک ہے بہت ک
آفاق کی اس کارگہ شیشہ گری کا
“If you breathe, breathe softly:
The mirror work of the cosmos is delicate.”
(trans. Saraswati Nandini Majumdar)
CREDITS
Choreography and Performance: Bijayini Satpathy
Music composition: Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy
Lights and Design: Sujay Saple
Dramaturgy: Poorna Swami
Costume Design: Masoom Parmar
Production Management: Alif Arts Consultancy
Voice: Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy
Rhythmic voice: Bijayini Satpathy
Mardala: Shivshankar Satpathy
Flute: Sameer Rao
Oudh and Classical guitar: Neil Mukherjee
Strings: Rithu Vysak
Classical guitar, Production, and Arrangement: M.S. Krsna
Editing and Premixing: Sridhar Varadarajan and Krishna
Mixing and Mastering: Protyay Chakraborty
Recorded at Studio 304 and Laya Digi Studios, Bangalore.
After Dark
with Rayska
28 June, Saturday, 22:00
Rayska is a multi-genre DJ known for creating bold audio-visual art through mashups, edits, music videos, poetry, and original compositions. With her high-energy live sets featuring heavy bass, Jersey club, drum n bass, dubstep, and her own club edits, she is quickly making her mark in the underground dance music scene.
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