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R: 6/7A A.J.C. Bose Road, Flat # 4 South, Calcutta - 700 017, West Bengal, India. T: (91-33)2289-1090 / 98300 33979 (cell) |
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It is an exploratory piece with the
paintings and sculptures of Hiran Mitra and the actors of
Chetana. The 15 minutes long piece seeks to explore the
possibilities of creating imageries and visual metaphors
while the actors interact with the painted canvases
through their movements and bodily gestures. Traditional
and contemporary body signs are intermingled with
predominantly black and white paintings. Paintings were
used in different modes. Sometimes as extension of body;
sometimes as visual metaphors of actor's emotions;
sometimes as simple properties only.
Hiran Mitra and me had been discussing
the potentiality of creating a very different kind of
performance piece with his paintings and my actors. I have
always found Hiran's paintings very dynamic. Abstract in
nature they inherit great energy and movement. I always
felt they have very independent characteristics and they
ought to be free from their framed confine. They need an
extension. I tried to discover that extension in my
actors' bodies. I asked them to react to those canvasses
with open mind and express the feelings through their
physicality. Whatever reflected out of the instinctive
counteraction of mine's and the actor's was kept in an
emotional record and memory. We organized them in a very
open choreography. We relived those memories through the
performance, we were open to new emotional reactions but
never tried to codify the piece to a definite
interpretation or didn't tried to create a meaning.