SAIIER 2018:BHU/EARTH Performances
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The purpose of this project was to perform our show BHU/EARTH on February 8th, 9th & 10th, 2018 in Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas for the Auroville community and the surroundings. Our team includes 7 people: 6 dancers/actors and Philippe as director.
Outcomes:
- Big success: We welcomed more than 2000 people on 3 evenings. The Auroville community and people from the surrounding could appreciate a beautiful performance of high quality free of charge.
- Artistically and technically, it was wonderful. The level of the performance was really professional. We created an indoor version with wonderful scenography, light and sound. These benefited the actors who could get an experience of performing in a professional setting.
- We revived and connected the audience to one of the lost form of art (Kalaripayattu).
- A booklet was created to share the performance to a wider audience.
- Some students of Last School and Future School collaborated with us for shooting and editing a video, making a trailer and taking photos.
- We could also collaborate with a number of Auroville units: Auroville Radio TV, Auroville Art Service, Svaram, French Pavilion, and Lila-CIRHU.
- Inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga and Yoga of Earth, these performances were an opportunity to transmit a message about the need of reconnection with Nature and Mother Earth.
- The show brought awareness of high level physical education.
Reflections:
After 16 months of training, rehearsals and outdoor performances, it was very nice to create an indoor version of the show in a very professional theatre with professional equipment and a team of creative and skilled technicians. We were very happy to perform for the Auroville community with a full venue and to receive such a positive feedback from the audience.
For our performers, it was a necessary professional experience that helps them grow by understanding their responsibility as actors, dancers, musicians and as human beings.
For the audience, it was a real poetic journey of reconnection with Mother Earth and with the most ancient martial art, Kalaripayattu, in a contemporary way.
On stage, we told the story of a man full of anger who reconnected with himself, with his true nature and with Nature. Each spectator could identify himself with the story.
Challenges were of a technical nature: we had many power cuts and that affected the light setting and the planning of the rehearsals. Thanks to the professionalism and commitment of the technical team, everything went well.
Conclusion:
After these successful performances in Bharat Nivas auditorium, we are now ready to take this show born in Auroville in tour first in India then on an international tour.
We would like to develop a stronger relationship and partnership with SAIIER, as our work is increasingly oriented towards education and transmission.
