Srishti Squared is the company’s first digital work, involving ten dancers and musicians. This piece has been created entirely during lockdown, working remotely throughout the process. The dance and music were devised with the artists via Zoom, with recordings made by the artists in their own spaces. The piece has been assembled like a jigsaw puzzle using technology as one of the tools for creativity.
This piece has been influenced by the experiences of the pandemic and the effect of lockdown including virus mutations, confinement, resolution and reconciliation, in addition to the before and after. These events have served as stimuli for generating material for each section of the work, without specifically depicting a narration of events.
It has been a tremendous effort by all the dancers and musicians to learn, refine and film / record the content in such a short space of time; each section was a task to be completed within the same day, or at the most by the next day. This would not have been achievable without the dedicated input of all.
Credits
Concept, Choreography & Artistic Direction: Nina Rajarani MBE
Music Composition: Y Yadavan
Production Assistant: Sooraj Subramaniam
Film Editors: Nina Rajarani MBE (Vision, Creative Input & Direction)
Shyam Dattani (Technical & Creative Input)
Sound Mixing and Arrangement: TH Thiyagarajan (Chakri Studios, Chennai, India)
Sanskrit Text Consultation: Nandini A Sharma (Chennai, India)
Dancers:
Abirami Eswar (Kathak)
Kirsten Newell (Bharatanatyam)
Saloni Saraf (Kathak)
Shivaangee Agrawal (Bharatanatyam)
Shyam Dattani (Kathak)
Suhani Dhanki Mody (Bharatanatyam)
Musicians: Prathap Ramachandra (Mridangam, Ghatam & Ganjira)
Vijay Venkat (Flute, Viola, Vichitra Veena)
Y Yadavan (Vocals)
Project Management: Helen Thomas
With Thanks To: Anita Srivastava, Iwan Essery, R Sriganesh, Shan Varma, Tom Decuyper
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