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“Folios of Time” is the festival curator Jayachandran Palazhy’s theme for contemporary somatic expressions at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2024.
The world is at the cusp of epochal change, and individuals and communities are facing multiple challenges on various fronts – the environment, climate emergencies, wars, migration, displacements, existential dilemmas, gender issues, and many more. Hence, it becomes ever more important to find empathetic somatic expressions to reflect this reality. While recognizing the difficulties humanity faces today, any attempt to offer hope for individuals in building inclusive communities where diversity, tolerance, care for the environment, and sustainable practices are nurtured, needs to be celebrated. The contemporary dance strand of the festival will present the pulse of our time from multiple vantage points and perspectives through the works of choreographers from diverse backgrounds.
We seek proposals from emerging choreographers who wish to work on any aspect of contemporary life and have developed an outline of their proposed dance work. The chosen choreographers will be invited for an intense choreography residency in Bangalore from 3 to 14 December 2024 mentored by two acclaimed Italian artists – choreographer Damiano Ottavio Bigi and dramaturge Alessandra Paoletti, and will get a chance to interact with the renowned Japanese digital artist Kunihiko Matsuo.
