Love Is In The Air

Love is in the Air is a fresh take on a classic story, building on themes explored in Srishti’s 2009 tour My Stamping Ground.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Broadway’s West Side Story,  Bollywood's Josh - the tension of forbidden love has caused thrill and heartbreak throughout the ages.  Srishti’s new production explores fighting forces that seem impossible to conquer. Using a male-dominated cast, Love is in the Air tackles the issue of gangs in the UK whilst celebrating the loyalty and solidarity shared by friendship groups, often misconstrued as gangs.

Inspired by gang culture and created to send positive messages to communities about this controversial subject, Love is in the Air is an innovative piece where modern film and aerial work meet the traditional form of Bharatanatyam.

Touring from October 2010, this will be the first time that an adventurous South Asian dance piece of this nature will be created and toured in the UK. Love is in the Air features choreography by Place Prize winner Nina Rajarani MBE, with aerial consultancy by Scarabeus (www.scarabeus.co.uk) and magnetic live music created by composer and vocalist Y Yadavan in collaboration with a rap artist.

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Srishti’s aim is to visit venues in the week running up to each show, in order to make this work responsive to the venue and locality, working to a timetable determined by each venue according to feasibility.  A tailor-made mini film project filmed at the local site will be incorporated into each performance.
A truly original experience for audiences of all ages, full of surprise, skill and imagination, Love is in the Air is of particular appeal and relevance to young audiences.

Making the production site-responsive to your venue/locality

Each performance will include a projected film, created by our filmmaker, with portions exclusive to each venue using locations on-site and within the local community, and incorporating authentic stories and places in the local area. The film at each performance will therefore be individually connected to each venue.

Srishti will also be able to offer a programme of education work to each venue in which participants will learn our repertory and explore creative processes facilitated by Srishti’s dance and music artists.  Workshop participants will then be invited to create short pieces of dance to be used in the film projections accompanying the live work. In this way, the film work will be informed by and created within our community outreach work at each venue, inspiring young people to be involved with and to come and see the show.

The innovative, site-responsive nature of the touring work will be of interest to the press and to the community as a whole, and will form a significant part of our marketing and publicity campaign.

For more information on how this show could work in your venue or for further information about our educational workshops, please contact us here at Srishti for a chat!