Rituranga – A Symphony of Seasons (45 mins)
It is a pure dance presentation, a celebration of the seasons. The same seasons, grishma(summer), varsha(monsoon), sharat(post monsoon), hemanta(autumn), sheeta(winter) and vasanta(spring) are explored, but through an idiom which is radical, experimental, and a colourful geometry of designs against space and time. The breath, fragrance and feel of each season connect to the inner soul through visual and body metaphors. Set to Dr Partha Ghose’s symphonic raptures,in this new language of dance, Tagore is set free in a realm of non linguistic, cross cultural movement and expression.
Sapphirescope (50 mins)
A ensemble of contemporary dance pieces created by Sapphire company members across the years comprising of various moods and themes presented as a single representation of Sapphire’s eclectic and collaborative style.
Parivahitam: Global perspectives in Motion (40 min)
Conceived as a cross-journey between an ordered, disciplined and beautiful past and a chaotic, atomized and unhinged present, a contemporary take on the discomfort of temporality, the nostalgia that brings solace but not a solution.Inspired by interactions with Roger Sinha (Canada), Christopher Lechner (Germany) and Michel Casanovas (Switzerland), and setto music by Marc Rossier(Switzerland), the performance combines elements of dance which were both traditionally Indian and South Asian in spirit and stylistic but with an edge of contemporary improvisatory Western technique which would give it wiry, vivid, expressive, impromptu and agile dimension.
Ekonama 70 mins:
A futuristic but not-impossible vision of the end of days that looms ahead from the continuous and unsustainable and unplanned exhaustion of natural resources. With a mélange of sharply contrasting choreographies using contemporary movement by Sapphire dancers and Chhau movement by Bengal’s famed Purulia Chhau dancers the production is a visually penetrating saga of images of barren, grey earth and the dying mother figure developed as part of the Microsoft GIZ Create to Inspire Program. It’s the end of word but flowers are still blooming.
