FACETS 2012 - 13
December 5, 2012 – January 23, 2013
Call for Applications for an International Choreography Residency in Bangalore, India. We offer a six week intensive training to create a new work with a premiere at the Attakkalari India Biennial 2013. 15 selected participants have the opportunity to work with international Mentors and Collaborators. We also provide production support for the premiere along with accommodation and living costs for the entire workshop period. More here
May 2012
11th - 13th
Devarattam & Silambham workshop
Attakkalari Studios, Bangalore
5th
Swa Atman & Temps d’arrêt
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
April 2012
27th
'Rang Tarang'
Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore
April - May 2012
23rd - 5th
Summer movement workshop
Attakkalari Studios, Bangalore
March - April 2012
31st - 22nd
Weekend Light Design workshop
Attakkalari Studios, Bangalore
March 2012
24th
Kentaro!! Performance
Attakkalari Studios, Bangalore
February 2012
25th
BANG BANG
Malleswaram Bus Stand, Bangalore
24th
BANG BANG
Attakkalari Studios, Bangalore
6th-26th
Samir Akika / Unusual Symptoms
Attakkalari Studios, Bangalore
4th-5th
Workshop
Melbourne Arts Centre, Melbourne
January - February 2012
30th - 2nd
Workshop
Critical Path, Sydney
January, 2012
27th
Nadir
Blue Frog, New Delhi
16th-28th
Workshop with Richard Siegal
Attakkalari Studios
13th
MeiDhwani, Nagarika
NSD, New Delhi
December, 2011
18th
Young Choreographers Platform, Nagarika
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Cochin
17th
MeiDhwani
Kerala Fine Arts Hall, Cochin
8th-11th
"Exploring the Senses - Emotions, Performativity, and Ritual"
Clubhaus FU Berlin, Germany
3rd
MeiDhwani
Ninasam, Shimoga
2nd
Young Choreographers Platform
Ninasam, Shimoga
November, 2011
30th
MeiDhwani
Music Academy, Chennai
29th
Young Choreographers Platform, Nagarika
SPACES, Elliots Beach Chennai
11th
MeiDhwani
J.S.S. Auditorium, Bangalore
5th-8th
Synchronous Objects (William Forsythe)
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore & Attakkalari
October, 2011
19th
Nagarika Presentation & Master classes
Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
17th-18th
Workshop on "Textiles & Performance"
Swedish School of Textiles, Sweden
14th-15th
MeiDhwani, Nagarika
Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf
12th
MeiDhwani
Theatre im Pumpenhaus, Munster
11th-13th
Nadir, Uyire, Padheyam, Uruvam
Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf , Germany
7th, 8th
MeiDhwani
Kunstlerhaus Mousontrum, Frankfurt
2nd
Traces
14th Seoul International Dance Festival
September, 2011
10th-18th
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
Philadelphia, U.S.
7th
MeiDhwani preview
Ravindra Kalakshetra,Bangalore
August, 2011
19th
Diploma Graduation Ceremony
Bangalore
June, 2011
4th
Nadir & Uyire
Alliance Francaise, Bangalore
May-JUNE, 2011
23rd-2nd
Beyond Project
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April-May, 2011
30th-1st
Low Lives 3
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/low-lives-3
25th-7th
Summer Camp
Attakkalari, Bangalore
April, 2011
22nd
Learning & Participation Project
South Bank Centre, London, UK
20th
Farewell in honour of Dr. Evelin Hust
Goethe- Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
19th
Chaaya
South Bank Centre, London, UK
11th-21st
Alchemy Festival
South Bank Centre, London, UK
9th
Rush & Padheyam
Greenwich Dance Agency, London, UK
7th
Rush, Uruvam & Padheyam
Plymouth University, UK
3rd
Uruvam
Pavilion Dance/ Dance South West, Bournemouth, UK
2nd
Rush & Padheyam
Pavilion Dance/ Dance South West, Bournemouth, UK
March, 2011
31st
Uruvam
Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K.
February, 2011
3rd
Traces
Rangashankara, Bangalore
January 2011
30th
Rush, Uruvam & Padheyam
Rangashankara, Bangalore
28th
Corporeal Kaleidoscpoe
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore
November-December, 2010
27th-19th
Beyond Project
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November, 2010
2nd
Sanchaari
Tagore Hall, Trivandrum
October, 2010
31st
Sanchaari
Mammen Mappilai Hall, Kottayam
8th
Sanchaari
Tagore Centenary Hall, Calicut
September, 2010
8th
Sanchaari
Regional Theatre, Trichur
5th
Sanchaari
Kerala Fine Arts Society, Cochin
4th
Young Choreographers Platform Showcase
David Hall, Fort Kochi
August, 2010
20th
Diploma Graduation Ceremony
Seva Sadan Association, Bangalore
July, 2010
17th
Auditions for Diploma Programme
Attakkalari, Bangalore
June, 2010
26th
Auditions for Diploma Programme
Terence Lewis Dance Company, Mumbai
12th
Uruvam & Chaaya
Alliance Francaise, Bangalore
April, 2010
20th
For Pina
National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai
17th
For Pina
Darpana, Ahmedabad
March, 2010
26th-28th
Chronotopia
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
18th
Evening of Young Choreographers
Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
17th
Chronotopia
Varakonserthus, Sweden
14th
Chronotopia
Staasts Theater, Schauspielhaus, Germany
February, 2010
5th
For Pina...
Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
2nd
For Pina...
Qutub Shahi Tombs, Hyderabad
january, 2010
30th
For Pina...
Ranga Shankara, Bangalore
28th
For Pina...
Spaces, Elliot Beach, Chennai
19th
Chronotopia
Abhimanch Theatre, New Delhi
17th
Chronotopia
Antarang Theatre, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
Attakkalari at 'Rang Navrang'
Friday, April 27th 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Attakkalari has been invited to showcase its repertoire by the Karnataka Sangeeta Nritya Academy for the Classical and Contemporary dance festival to mark the World Dance Day on Friday, April 27th at Chowdiah Memorial Hall.
Attakkalari's Artistic Director, Jayachandran Palazhy, will also be addressing young choreographers and dance enthusiasts from 12:00pm to 1:00pm.
Summer movement workshops at Attakkalari!
Monday, April 23rd to Saturday, May 5th
Attakkalari’s summer workshops are back! The workshops have been customized by age - Juniors (5-8 years), Seniors (9-12 years) and Teens (13-19 years). All the modules are conceived by Kayleigh Anne Crook and facilitated by her along with members of the Attakkalari Repertory Company. More here
Weekends for Light Design!
Saturday, March 31st to Sunday, April 22nd
Have an interest in Light Designing? Then Attakkalari Studios on weekends is the place to be! We have a comprehensive set of modules which will help you make a smooth entry into the world of Stage Lighting.
The workshop will be facilitated by Attakkalari's in-house Light designers - Shymon Chelad and Niranjan Gokhale. More here

In partnership with the Japan Foundation, Attakkalari was delighted to host Kentaro in Bangalore. Kentaro is one of the most promising young contemporary dancers in Japan.
He conducted an open workshop (Thursday, March 22nd) at Attakkalari and performed his piece After Raining, it will be Sunny on Saturday, March 24th at the Attakkalari Studios.
Born in 1980, Kentaro is one of the most promising young contemporary dancers in Japan. Deeply impressed by street dance culture as a child, he then discovered contemporary dance and its improvisational aspects. He started to work on pieces combining street dance techniques and dramatic elements of contemporary dance. His highly original and lyrical performances are created as either collective work with his colleague dancers or solo dance performances, reflecting human relationships or realities of young people living in modern Japanese society.
Kentaro's dance interpretation originates from hip-hop, fused with contemporary dance, and drama. Kentaro's expression has a very personal and sensitive tone, which resonates among the audience with his own story lines and self-composed music.
Kentaro has won many awards, which include the prestigious "The Young Choreographer's Award" sponsored by the French Embassy in Japan, at Yokohama Dance Collection R (2008), "The Nextage Special Prize" and "The Audience Prize" at the Toyota Choreography Award (2008), and "Dance Forum vol.4" (2009). Kentaro!! has performed extensively in Japan and abroad, including Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Korea. More information here

Spaces of Theatre, Spaces for Theatre
Jayachandran Palazhy, had been invited to a national seminar Spaces of Theatre, Spaces for Theatre organised by the India Theatre Forum. The seminar was organized in an effort to contextualise, historicise and problematise the processes and practices of theatre in India.
The seminar was held from 14 to 18 March 2012 in Ninasam – an extremely special theatre institute in rural Karnataka which has served as a community centre for over 50 years.
The seminar brought together about 150 theatre practitioners, scholars, critics, architects, designers, urban planners, social scientists and scientists over 5 days to consider the various dimensions of the spaces and processes of Indian theatre. Most of the participants were from India, but there was also an international component as well.
The seminar tried to address the overall theme of in a wider and holistic manner. Therefore the word ‘spaces’ here did not just mean the physical spaces involved in the act of theatre but various kinds of ‘spacialities’ involved in the processes of theatre practise. The seminar attempted to cover a gamut of related topics ranging from the relationship of performing ‘bodies’ to space, to the actual physical spaces of performance, to the politics of the spaces in society , to the new virtual spaces opening up and to the future of Spaces.
Attakkalari Dancer in Japan
Ronita Mookerji, a member of the Attakkalari Repertory Company was selected for the DANCE BOX’s residency "Kobe‐Maizuru Exchange Programme". She was in Japan from February 16th to March 26th, 2012. The DANCE BOX residency program is implemented in cooperation with Art Theater dB KOBE, Studio dB Kobe, Studio dB Kobeloft and Mizuru RB (Yashima Art Port). Ronita created a piece as part of her residency which was presented at Maizuru RB (Yashima Art Port) and Art Theater dB KOBE. Ronita was also invited to showcase her short choreography - For You A Thousand Times Over - as part of the "Love Songs in Kobe" on February 17th at the international Kobe-Asia Contemporary Dance Festival.
Photography Credits: Kidayo, Mural by Van Laak, Gabor Dole, Divya Babu/Sanjay Arora, Dilip Banerjee, Anoop Kumar, Sudeep Bhattacharya & Attakkalari.