online première 7 May 2021
Tara is a dynamically uplifting duet for a dancer and bass guitar with tight rhythms and impressive footwork.
Tara means "star" in the ancient language of Sanskrit. Indian philosophy assumes that life is powered by the energy from the galaxy.
Modern sound of bass guitar and the use of a looping station are combined with classical Indian dance.
Unlike in other choreographies, the choreographer in Tara stays closer to the source: the Indian dance forms Kathak and Bharatanatyam are not so much linked to contemporary dance this time, but are brought together.
Since Indian dance forms are rarely combined, a unique new Indian dance idiom is created.
Duration about 15 minutes
This duet can also be booked in combination with the duet Fluïde
Pers
"thanks to a smooth audiovisual plan the formal conversation between the two artistic mediums was more than enough to get us caught up in a cosmic sense of the moment. Tara feels like a well planned and studied improvisation, where both performers have had the time to get to know each other, slowly developing an evocative way of playing together as they individually excel in their technical abilities. The attention to the precision of her moves and the swift contrast between sharpness and fluidity in her body render Panday fascinating to watch, the intricacy of the rhythms she counteroffers to Haanstra’s looped game of bass-guitar a labyrinth of its own.(...) From my white, western, new-to-Indian-dance-languages critical vantage point I will venture to say that Raghuraman succeeds at what I read to be one of her company’s main aims: “to uncover the mystical and multifaceted nature of countless Indian sources in a way that speaks to us today”.
Jordi Ribot Theunissen about Tara & Fluid in movement exposed
Tourdata
Credits
Choreography
Kalpana Raghuraman
Composition and Bass guitar
Mark Haanstra
Dance
Indu Panday