Rehersals for Cartes Blanches
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French choreographer Mourad Merzouki is helming Cartes Blanches, a present that can see Indian artistes carry out in a French up to date dance manufacturing. Mourad was in India final December too, when he staged the dance manufacturing, Pixel, and extra lately made waves for choreographing the French synchronised swimming group on the Olympics 2024.
Mourad is the inventive director of Compagnie Käfig, a dance firm in France which he based that encourages collaboration between genres and cultures. The productions at Compagnie Käfig are marked by infusing components of martial arts, nice arts, video, reside music and the circus into Mourad’s presentation of hip-hop dance. For Cartes Blanches, Compagnie Käfig labored with the French Institute in India and the Prakriti Basis, to shortlist six dancers from India.
“Cartes Blanches was written in 2016 to mark Compagnie Käfig’s twentieth anniversay and is a celebration and a tribute to all who’ve been part of our historical past,” says Mourad, talking over cellphone from France.
Mourad Merzouki
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“I created Cartes Blanches particularly for that anniversary; the manufacturing is just not a dance drama neither does it comply with a plot or inform a particular story. As an alternative, I’ve structured it as a platform for dancers who’ve labored with us previously to relate their experiences by means of motion.”
In his bid to pay homage to the corporate’s previous in addition to stay up for the long run, that is the primary time Indian dancers can be performing in a manufacturing of Cartes Blanches, says Mourad.
The auditions which came about in 2023 with the help of the Prakriti Basis in Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Delhi, have been rigorous to say the least. Over the previous few months, the dancers have been incessantly rehearsing with Mourad and his troupe in preparation for this present. Divieta Sahajwala from Delhi, Sam Padelkar, Deep Das and Sahan Kavarna from Mumbai, and Snigdha Prabakar and Chetan Kumar from Bengaluru, type the Indian part of Cartes Blanches.
The Indian dancers who’re part of Cartes Blanches
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“Cartes Blanches contains options of freestyle and up to date dance in addition to acrobatics; it’s emblematic of my fashion and work with references to my roots. I consider this retains our present from stagnating,” says Mourad, who is thought for his prowess in hip hop.
The rating for the manufacturing which is an authentic work, will be described as “world music, poetic and energetic. It’s actually a synthesis of my work and magnificence,” he provides.
Created for 26 dancers, Cartes Blache is an hour-long manufacturing, set in a front room with interval furnishings the place the artistes come and share the reminiscences of their journey collectively.
Following their present in Bengaluru, Cartes Blanches can be travelling to different cities as nicely.
Cartes Blanches premieres on September 7 on the Status Srihari Khoday Centre for Performing Arts, Konanakunte, from 8pm. Tickets on Bookmyshow. Name 8754415362 for particulars.
Rehearsals underway for Cartes Blanches
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Printed – September 06, 2024 12:12 pm IST
