marc rossier

12/12/2010

Little Venus guitarist Marc Rossier tours with Sapphire Dance Creation Workshop. "Parivahitam" the piece that the contemporary dance company based in Kolkata started to elaborated with him in summer 2009, had its premiere in New York July 13th 2010. Now it can be experienced in India for the first time:

 9^th  Dec 2010 – Delhi, Azad Bhawan, ICCR, 6pm

11^th Dec 2010 – Agra, Interactive Session, Grand Hotel, 8pm

14^th Dec 2010 – Kolkata, Akshar, Film Showing of “PEZ Y PESCADO”
the DanceCreation of Anna Röthlisberger Co. in presence of the musician Marc Rossier

17^th Dec 2010 – Pondicherry, Adishakti Theatre, 7pm

18^th Dec 2010 – Bangalore, Sambhavi Dance Theatre , 10am-4pm
Workshop&Lec-dem, Celebrate Dance 2010

19^th Dec 2010 – Bangalore, Freedom Park Amphi Theatre, 6.30pm
Celebrate Dance 2010

25^th Dec 2010 – Chennai, Spaces (Candralekha’s Theatre), 9pm, Poetry Festival’2010

27^th Dec 2010 – Auroville, New Creations, 8pm
special performance of Marc Rossier with Chris Lechner and Irene Sposetti

2^nd Jan 2011 – Pune, Tilak Smarak, 10am

7^th Jan 2011 – Ahmedabad, Natarani Theatre, 8pm

9^th Jan 2011 – Luckow, Gargi Auditorium, postponed
International Dance & Music Festival’11

9^th Jan 2011 – Kolkata, Nalban Eco Park Auditorium, 6pm
special appearence of Marc Rossier with Sapphire Dance Creations Workshop
11^th Jan 2011 – Kolkata, Swissotel, 8.30pm 

12^th Jan 2011 – Kolkata, Rabindranath Tagore Centre (ICCR), 7pm

15^th - 20^th Jan 2011 - Goa, Arambole, Blue Pyramid
Marc Rossier provides  music for the 1. International Contact Dance Festival

Cast & Credits
Dibyendu Nath(Principal Dancer), Paramita Saha(Lead female), Nikita Bhattacharya (Senior repertory member), Koushik Das (Senior repertory member), Ankita Duttagupta(Senior repertory member)

Concept: Sudarshan Chakravorty & Paramita Saha
Choreography & Artistic Direction: Sudarshan Chakravorty
Live Music: Marc Rossier (Switzerland)
Costumes: Mona Pali
Text: Extracts from Sylvia Plath
Light Design: Chandan Sen
Photographs: Ranjit Sinha
Choreography collaborators: Roger Sinha (Canada), Chirstopher Lechner (Germany)
Acknowledgement: Michel Casanovas (Switzerland) 

Sapphire’s latest Indo-Swiss production ‘Parivahitam’ is conceived as a cross-journey between an ordered, disciplined and beautiful past and a chaotic, atomized and unhinged present. It is a contemporary take on the discomfort that individuals feel at this present time and the nostalgia that brings solace but not a solution. 

Taking the name from an ancient Indian shiroveda that describes the movement of the head in the form of a ripple, in circular motion from side to side facilitating complete vision of the surrounds from all perspectives. Parivahitam: Global perspectives in Motion conveys a wide-eyed and open-ended vision of an ensemble of youth which is kinetic, dynamic, motivated, energetic and focused and which wants to embark on a journey which can bind and unite the world, break silences and voice a new revolution.

Disbalance is explored with a keen medium of movement that inhabits the watershed between tradition and contemporaneity and evolves into a vision of life through dance that can encourage us to move through these troubled times and hope for a constructive, positive and meaningful time not so far away. 

It was premiered in New York to critical acclaim on 13^th July 2010 as part of the Global Dance Meet 2010 organised by World Dance Alliance, Americas

…subtler physicality and focus on the body – Robert Johnson (NJ.com)

Strong coherent statement with inventive movement… - Stephanie Burridge (WDA)

…rhythmic foot stamping and contemporary floor work and expansive locomotion – Marcia B. Siegel (Boston Phoenix)

Programme subject to last minute changes:

for details contact 09830265603 / 09830090527

www.sapphirecreations.org