Serendipity Arts Foundation

http://www.serendipityartsfoundation.org/

Dharti Arts Residency 2018
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As part of its programming, Dharti Arts Residency 2018 is hosting a series of public talks by artists, performers, and cultural practitioners. Invited speakers will give an illustrated lecture about their practice, which will be followed by a conversation with the audience.

13-06-18 | 6pm – 7.30pm
Find Out More (http://www.serendipityartsfoundation.org/)

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Downstairs@S47: Upcoming ProgrammeDownstairs@S47
presents

*Pangaea*
In Concert

*Saturday, 16 June, 2018 | 7 pm | S47 Panchsheel Park*

*Pangaea* is a collaboration between Tabla player and Percussionist *Saptak
Sharma*, New Zealand Composer and Classical Guitarist *Mike Hogan*, and
Sitar and Flute player *Mayank Rainer*.
All three musicians are well established in their respective fields and
have come together to create a unique soundscape which combines elements of
Indian Classical, Indie and folk song writing and Western classical music.
The trio performs across a wide range of musical genres, including
Hindustani Classical, Western Classical, Celtic folk, and Contemporary
folk, blues and rock song structures, each time bringing something from
outside the traditional forms to the music.

*About the evening:*
Pangaea will be performing a range of music, both instrumental and vocal,
drawing from both Western and Indian classical traditions as well as from
modern songwriting styles. Much of the music will be brand new pieces,
composed recently in preperation for Pangaea’s upcoming New Zealand tour
and heard for the first time at Downstairs@S47

*About the Artists:*

*Saptak Sharma *is one of the leading young tabla players in India. He
began learning tabla at the age of 4 and for the last 10 years has been
under the tutelage of the legendary Ustad Akram Khan from the Ajrada
Gharana school in New Delhi.
He has been lucky enough to perform with all three generations of Ajrada
Gharana including Ustad Hashmat Ali Khan, Ustad Akram Khan and Zargham
Akram Khan and has toured extensively with many different acts, performing
across the country and globally.
Eminent artists like Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, Pandit Kumar Bose, Ustad
Shahid Parvez Khan have provided him with their praise, blessings and
guidance, and he received the Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy Award in
2014 from Chief minister Mr Akhilesh Yadav ji.

*Mike Hogan* is a New Zealand musician \ composer currently residing in New
Delhi India. He has mastered a wide range of styles, from Classical and
Latin through to Jazz, Rock, and Folk music. He has an Honors Degree (first
class) in composition as well as a Bachelor of Music in performance
Classical guitar from the NZ School of Music, Wellington.
Mike’s classical compositions for guitar have been recorded and performed
internationally by artists such as Christopher Hill and Matthew Marshall,
and as a singer songwriter, He performs as a solo artist playing classical
guitar repertoire as well as his own original compositions. Mike is also a
prize-winning music and video producer, having won the international 2011
Fair Play Youth Voices competition.

*Mayank Raina* began his musical education at the age of 4 and was lauded
by music critics as a child prodigy. He was initially taught by his
Grand-father pandit Omkar Nath Raina, the most reputed and honored sitarist
of the Jammu & Kashmir state, along with his father Shri Sunil Raina who is
a senior instructor in the “Institute of Music and Fine arts Jammu.
At the age of 10 Mayank won first prize in an instrumental classical music
solo competition organized by the J&K Academy of Art Culture and Languages,
Jammu, and since then has regularly been winning and receiving numerous
prestigious awards.
Mayank has performed for many distinguished V.I.P audiences such as Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, P.M. Mr. Manmohan Singh & congress president Mrs.
Sonia Gandhi, H.E. president of India, Sh. Pranab Mukherjee, H.E. vice
president of India & then education minister, Mr Kapil Sibbal.
He has given many recitals abroad in countries like Belgium, Korea, Sri
Lanka and Germany.

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*Space at the venue is limited. We cannot guarantee seats once they fill
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*See attached map for directions.The duration of the performance is
approximately 60 minutes.*

*The venue is down a flight of stairs. If you wish to use our chairlift
facility, please arrive 15 minutes before the performance begins so we can
ensure that you find a comfortable seat.*

*The venue is located in a residential area. We request you to park in the
spaces suggested below.*

* By the park behind the Mother Dairy nearby or the brick wall on the lane
behind S47*

*Hauz Khas. Laxman Public School/RBI Colony exit. 800m*

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*Downstairs@S47 is an initiative of Tejeshwar Singh Memorial Trust. *

We feel privileged to offer this space to artists – seekers of truth,
beauty and the bizarre. We are also able to offer them a small honorarium
from our resources. Please add your appreciation of their talent, their
work, and their ability to delight with a contribution, S, M, L, or XL. All
proceeds go to the artists. You will see our busker boxes just outside the
performance area. Look for them on your way out!

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The Play
In Attends, Attends, Attends… (Pour Mon Père) the son has an imaginary exchange of thoughts with his father… a dialogue in which he bids his father to wait and be patient. He asks his father to open himself up to his son’s time. He asks his father to withdraw into his son in order to become a child again and prepare for death. The son reveals himself as Charon, the ferryman that prepares the father for the last passage. He knows death like none other. Like the performer he’s become, he’s a specialist in dying. Every night again he allows death and birth to come. Every night again he crosses the Styx, he is after all the accomplice of the spiritual, he awakens phantoms and sends them back to their heaven and hell from which they were born. He knows his role well, it is on, he has played it so often. Father will you join me?
For this solo, Jan Fabre was inspired by the life of Cédric Charron, a dancer with whom he has worked closely since As Long as the World Needs a Warrior’s Soul (2000). In this performance Jan Fabre explores the art of postponing. The postponement creates a reserve, an instant in which everything is still possible, in which you don’t have to make
choices yet. You reserve yourself in time, as well as in space: respite will also create a distance, will retreat upon itself in a movement of patience. There is something erotic even about postponement: opening oneself up for what is yet to come. But not quite yet.

The Director & Playwright
Jan Fabre is a graduate of the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He is well known both at home and abroad as one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation. Over the past 30 years, he has produced works as a theatre maker, author and visual artist. Jan Fabre is renowned for expanding the horizons of every genre to which he applies his artistic vision. In the late 1970s, still very young, Jan Fabre
caused a furore as a performance artist.
He makes a clean break with the conventions of contemporary theatre by introducing the concept of ‘real-time performance’ – sometimes called ‘living installations’ – and explores radical choreographic possibilities as a means of resurrecting classical dance. Fabre has been writing his own plays since 1975, although it was not until 1989 that they were first performed. His recent 24-hour project Mount Olympus, to Glorify the Cult of Tragedy is
internationally praised as one of the most outstanding theatre productions of the last decade.

The Performer
Cédric Charron, born in Bretagne, France, completed his MA, and decided to study performance and dance at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels, in 1997. He started to work with Jan Fabre in 1999, and has performed many of Fabre’s works. He also collaborated onPreparatio Mortis, a solo for Annabelle Chambon, and dances in Pierre Coulibeuf’s filmLes Guerriers de la beauté. He founded the Label Cedana, together with Annabelle Chambon and collaborated with artists such as Boris Charmatz, William Forsythe, Thierry de Mey, Michèle Anne de Mey, Fatou Traoré, Filip Sangdor etc.

The Group
Troubleyn is a theatre company with an extensive international practice, and home base is Antwerp. Troubleyn's mission is two-fold: creating and presenting the stage work (theatre, dance …) and by extension coordinating research projects, book publications, films, lectures and giving shape to the working of the Troubleyn / Laboratory that houses both the rehearsal studios and the offices. This building not only functions as a rehearsal room and as a workplace for emerging talent, but also as a laboratory for independent research into body and language.

Cast & Credits