Swar Dhaara - Sunday 27th @ 18.00

And for those who cannot read Kanada :

"SWAR DHAARA" 

- Claasical music concert 

on 27th Jan 2013 , Sunday at 6.00 pm

at Shri Prasanna Veeranjaneya Swami Temple Auditorium , Mahalakshmi Layout (Mahalakshmi Puram) Bangalore.

Artistes are -

Hindustani Classical Vocal by Pt Vinayak Torvi 

Carnatic Violin by Vidushi Nalina Mohan

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PS : I don't love you - Saturday 2nd @ 19.30

A romantic comedy in English, this play revolves around characters brilliantly common and distinct at the same time. Get ready for your "This is so me!" moment. Written and Directed by Abhishek Iyengar, the play revolves around 'A couple' everyone envies! They have everything in common; just the perfect families, perfect age and head over heels in love probably a match made in heaven. On their way to a pompous marriage, a customary mushy honeymoon, jubilant households and "A Happily Ever after", hell breaks out! The lady gets a brainwave from the same heavens! A strong jolt, a sudden-strong-stable realization of perfection being the ultimate flaw, calmness being the utter boredom and an impulsive compulsion for an adrenaline rush. Embarking on this journey sans an adventure seems such a cliché. Not something "every" girl dreams of. 

So what will she do? What will all of them do infact? Wait, "them" - Oh yes! There is more. Of course, where there's trouble, there are friends and where there are friends there is action and reaction, there is drama and there is spice. An insecure, desperate for a Prince Charming girl, a hyper-excited crazy nutcase, a sensible mature guy pool along with the couple to plot a plan which they probably think will change the whole coarse of their life. Looks like the medley is complete, Or is it not? Come and see for it yourself as these 5 friends set out for what they believe as "journey of a lifetime"

On Stage:- Nagashree D.M, Anup Shenoy, Sushanth Shandilya, Ajit Vishwanath, Prachi Jain, Anirudh Mahesh, Divya Dev,Gowtham Shravan Kumar, Abhiram Balamukund, Neha Agrawal

Director of Lighting: Hanu Ramasanjeev

Director of Production: Srikanth Bhatracharya & Ranjan S

Music Direction & Lyrics by Abhishek Narain

Photography and Design by: Medini Gaddikeri & Bhat Kartikeya

Co-Directed by Rangaraj Bhatracharya & Abhishek Narain

Written by:- Abhishek Iyengar

Directed by: Abhishek Iyengar

Yamini 2013 - Saturday 25th from 19.00 to 6.00

Imago - Thursday 24th & Friday 25th @ 19.30

Have you ever imagined of being something else or someone else? Have you ever dreamed of turning into an unrealistic being? No? Then perhaps your imagination should free yourself to witness the wildest of possibilities, the strangest of dreams and wittiest of fantasies. 

Our protagonist indeed possesses such power to cross all boundaries of reality and take a leap into a gigantic world of imagination. One would fantasies turning into a beautiful bird or into a carefree doe or into a threatening wild beast, but alas! We fail to capture the protagonist's height of creativity when he turns into an Insect. A mere insect, with many eyes and many legs, but a six feet tall, rather long insect. The play "IMAGO" is a story of a teen turning into a gigantic insect and thereafter the journey of the insect to its destination. 

In Latin, Imago is the singular form of imagines. Thus, the name suffices not only the imaginative journey of protagonist but also the actual metamorphosis process of the insect.

English Adaptation of "KEEDA" Based on Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

Designed By : Chetan Chand

Adapted in English by Mandar Naik

Written By : Sameer Garud

Performed By : Aadar Malik

Live Music Band : Translucent Music Band

Produced By : Pankaj Singh

Swara Suprabhat | morning ragas - Sunday 27th @ 7.30 am

Little Cloud | Story telling session - from Saturday 2nd

Suresh Sawant - Saturday 16th

The show is on till Saturday 2nd, March

Hans Koch & al - Sunday 27th @ 20.00

The Chakra World Ensemble - Saturday 26th @ 20.30

The Whistle | A poetry performance - Tuesday 29th @ 18.00

Drishti Dance Festival - Saturday 26th @ 18.00

Storm | hip hop - Tuesday 22nd @ 18.30

January 22, 2013 in Berlin:
Joint ceremony of the French and German Governments and Parliaments as well as the French Senate and the Bundesrat to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Élysée Treaty

January 22, 2013 in Bangalore:
Storm celebrates 50 years of the Élysée Treaty with "Full Circle"

"Full Circle" premieres in Bangalore on January 24, 2013! Storm, who opened the Germany and India Year in Bangalore with Solo for Two in September 2011, and conducted a workshop  at the Urban Mela  in June 2012, is back in Bangalore and has whipped up a storm with his talented band of b-boys from Bangalore and beyond, bringng the Germany and India Year full circle. Join us for what promises to be an electric performance, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the historic Élysée Treaty, sealing the friendship between France and Germany.

The Élysée Treaty signed on January  22, 1963 by Adenauer and de Gaulle paved the way for an unusual friendship between France and Germany, one that is unique in its intensity. The Treaty is the political, legal and also symbolic basis for a remarkable new model of cooperation between two countries.

A special Élysée Treaty anniversary website (www.elysee50.de , www.elysee50.fr) provides an overview of the whole spectrum of Franco-German intersocietal cooperation. Details of all Franco-German Year events are available from the online calendar.

Hariprassad Chaurasia | the divine flute - Sunday 27th @ 10.30

Ticket on : www.BookMyShow.com or http://www.indianstage.in/EventDetails.do?eventId=4037

Become the Wind | Sakshi Gupta - Thursday 24th @ 19.00

Qasbah | Diba Siddiqi - Saturday 19th @ 18.00

Urban Ballet - Sunday 27th

Beyond classical dance and hip hop, a hybrid style that transcends all genres 

Urban Ballet produces a skillful melange between classical music and hip hop inspired movements. The result is unique work of art, tinged with the myriad influences of its choreographer.

Inspired by classical ballet, Urban Ballet, is composed of four acts that show four incarnations of the body. Each of the ten dancers tries to express artistic singularity through a gesture that slowly frees itself from the usual hip hop “delivery” and evolves in a universe, borne by the standards of classical music repertoire.

«The pure, sombre notes of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater are answered by a sensual solo playing on the male / female ambiguity. The dramatic tension of Ravel’s Bolero throws up nine dancers in stretched out lines, multiplying sculptural poses…Franck II Louise’s orchestral composition, specially written for ballet, conjures up an ensemble of ten dancers. In Urban Ballet, the relationship between dance and music is questioned by the yardstick of another objective: to mix urban dance and a classical score to embody other possibilities.”(Irène Filiberti).

Coming from the street hip hop of the 80’s, Anthony Egea has constantly questioned and refined this dislocated expression of the body. Artistic director and choreographer of the company Rêvolution, his creations develop the hip hop style by setting its vocabulary against other languages.

At the Rosella Hightower School in Cannes, he discovers the repertoire of classical ballet that would influence his work and push him to propose a new vision of hip hop, to restore “it’s badge of honour” by incorporating classical music and expressions. He would later also train at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in New York.

Today, success and fame have not curbed the imagination of Anthony Egea, who still has every intention of continuing to “Rêvolutionise” hip hop.

Book you ticket at the Alliance :
Alliance Française, 108 Thimmaiah Road, Vasanthnagar. Tel.: 4123 1340. www.afindia.org

Kenize Mourad - Friday 25th @ 18.00

Kenizé Mourad will tour in India on the occasion of the publication of the English translation of her book Dans la ville d'or et d'argent (Robert Laffont, 2010) by Full Circle.

She will be touring various cities including Bombay, Pune, New Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad, etc.). Kenizé Mourad was born to an Indian father and a Turkish mother and has spent most of her career with the French political magazine “Le Nouvel Observateur” for whom she covered the Iranian revolutions and the Lebanese civil war. Her last novel Dans la ville d'or et d'argent will be published as an English translation by Full Circle by the end of 2012.

Her book entitled Regards from the Dead Princess was based on the true story of her mother Selma, an Ottoman princess and granddaughter of the last Sultan of Turkey. It was a successful portrayal of Lebanese and Indian society between the wars.

Attakkalari India Biennial 2013 - from Friday 25th

Attakkalari India Biennial, considered South Asia's largest international contemporary dance and movement arts festival, is scheduled to be held from January 25 to February 3, 2013. This edition of the Biennial is conceived around the theme of Frames of Dance, which will feature performers and delegates from countries across the globe that include Austria, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, South Korea, UK, US and of course India.

For information about performances and other details, please visit the Attakkalari India Biennial page.

Tickets available via Bookmyshow and at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Wilson Garden, Bangalore

More information on : http://www.attakkalaribiennial.org/about.html

Ganesh Talkies - Friday 18th @ 20.30

Chakra Quartet - Sunday 20th @ 17.00

OnStage presents:
Fusion Concert
Chakra Quartet

Jishnu Dasgupta (bass guitar, India)Karthik Mani (percussion, India)
Jessica Strutch (Western vocals, Germany)Tunji Beier (percussion, Australia)

OnStage is honoured to feature an amazing fusion concert by the Chakra Quartet composed of four world class musicians.
An evening filled with jazz, pop, and original tunes with a pinch of Indian twist. Jessica's soaring vocals backed up with powerful bass lines of Jishnu and Karthik's and Tunji's percussion will take music to the next level. The claypot, cajon, mridangam, and drums all combine in various combinations to give a complete new feel to the songs. Odd meter rhythms and fast-paced compositions interlaced with solos and duets will keep the audience tapping to the music. The musicians involved have years of experience behind them and have traveled all over the globe as a group and as well as individual artists; the evening promises fun, energy, and ... calm.

Tickets: Rs 300 per person (All proceeds go to the artists)
(Kids below the age of 8 not permitted unless a student of the arts)

To reserve a seat and get directions please RSVP to OnStage@natya.Info

Man of the Heart - Friday 18th @ 19.30

Language: Bengali (with English subtitles)

Soumik Datta & Bernhard Schumplesberger - Friday 18th @ 20.30

The 28-year-old “British Sarod Maestro” and composer Soumik Datta is fast being recognized as “one of the biggest new music talents in Britain”.Get live with the creator of the first electro acoustic sarod, Soumik who combines guitar riffs with Indian melody, electronica and drum n bass to create a hybrid sound world distinctively his own.He is currently touring with his new instrument on the project ‘Circle of Sound’: collaboration with the stellar Austrian drummer Bernhard Schimpelsberger. Presented by British Council.

NEXTBANGALORE - Saturday 19th @ 13.30

A further element in the project Our City: Challenge the Future!, MOD Institutepresents NEXTBANGALORE, a Critical Talk and Urban Participation and Didactics Workshop and Spot on Bangalore, a Guided City Tour. 

NEXTBANGALORE, the critical urban talk series and the urban participation workshop are organised around a survey and practical design of urban development in India and Bangalore.

January 19, 1.30 p.m. at the Goethe-Insitut/Max Mueller Bhavan.

Spot on Bangalore, a guided city tour with focus on architecture, housing and neighbourhoods by Clara Berger, a trained Urban Designer and Landscape Architect. 

January 20, 2013 10.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. Limited seats, register with MOD Institute/Clara Berger: spotonbangalore@gmail.com. Tel: +91 96864 53281. 

Bangalore Gardens Reloaded - Friday 18th @ 18.30

Critical aesthetic perspectives by Bangalore artists

Under the banner of the Indo-German Jamboree that concludes the Year of Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities, a unique series of events addressing the future of our City and pressing urban and civic issues - Our City: Challenge the Future! - Exhibitions/Workshops/Lectures/City Tours.

Bangalore Gardens Reloaded, curated by Elke Falat from Germany, is spread over multiple locations in the VIT Museum, and presents the works of Ayisha Abraham, Bharathesh G. D., Bhavani G.S, Dimple B. Shah, Madhu D., Mangala Anebermath, Nandesh Shanthi, Prayas Abhinav, Raghu Kondur, Sunoj D., Surekha, Suresh Jayaram and Suresh Kumar G. Each work is a critical artistic response to the Post-Oil City Exhibition that is located in the same venue.

Inauguration in the presence of the Curator and all the artists.
The Exhibition remains on display till February 3, 2013.

Moonarra - Friday 18th @ 21.30

Raw Energy | Watercolours by Prasanna Kumar - Thursday 17th @ 19.00

We, the children of India | reading - Saturday 19th @ 11.00

Reading of the book, "We the Children of India" by Leila Seth followed by a fun walkthrough in the galleries and face exciting challenges!

For kids between 10-12 years old and their adult companions.

Entry by registrations through e-mail only - from 15th to 17th January 2013, between 10 am to 4 pm : 

ngma.bengaluru@gmail.com

Play reading group - from Saturday 12th

This is open to children who would like to keep in touch with plays and drama. There will be one session at week—on Saturday at 4 pm—for three months. Through this time, the group will read plays, watch plays and meet with directors, actors and designers to understand the workings of a dramatic text.

 

This is not a class, where a syllabus is followed and a trainer is teaching. The course will be extremely rewarding for children interested in drama, and who will motivate themselves to work and bring something to the group.

 

To register for the program, do write to edu@jagrititheatre.com with the following details:

1. Name

2. Age

3. Name of school

4. Any previous theatre training - if yes, duration of course(s) attended

5. A few lines on why you want to take up the course

 

Please Note:

The programme will start on January 12, but children are welcome to join any time

There is no fee

The upper limit is 20 children, after which registrations will close

Robinson & Crusoe - Saturday 19th @ 19.30

Sloping roof, sea all around, no food, no boat -- no problem! We will survive and go back home to family. Thank heavens for keeping us alive and giving us each other's company. Enemies no more. We are friends. 

Robinson and Crusoe is a hot favourite on the European Theatre for the Young circuit. No less here at Ranga Shankara's AHA! A play that captures the imagination of the young and old alike is full of moments to savour and take back home -- a full-fledged fight sequence on a sloping roof floating on the sea, two hungry, stranded men who don't understand each other's language negotiating the toughest challenge of their lives, a tennis match in adverse conditions and above all, the triumph of the human spirit!

Parvaaz - Friday 11th @ 20.30

Affordable art sale - from Thursday 10th

On decontextualised performers - Sunday 13th @ 18.30

On decontextualised performers and remote-controlled audiences by Stefan Kaegi of Rimini Protokoll with a musical rendering by Ron Schneider

All the world's a stage and Stefan Kaegi takes all the men and women and transforms them into players - in a singular dramatisation of the urban environment. The Indo-German Jamboree, which marks the end of the Year of Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities kicks off with a Lecture by celebrated German producer Stefan Kaegi of Rimini Protokoll.

Germany's most innovative and celebrated young theatre director is in India with Parallel Cities, which happened in December in Kolkata and is currently part of the NSD Bharat Rang Mahotsav in Delhi. We were able to lure Kaegi away from Delhi for a day, so that he could present his unique concept to a privileged audience in Bangalore.

The event will be enhanced by an electronic intervention with Ron Schneider, currently the Goethe Artist-in-Residence at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Ron Schneider (aka "dRONe", "Raumagent Alpha", member of the realtime-band "Transistors Of Mercy") will be improvising a musical rendering using modified analog synthesizers and self-built sound devices.

Lekhana 2013 - Friday 18th, Saturday 19th, Sunday 20th

Sanjay Abhyankar - Friday 25th @ 20.00

Chapter 2 - Saturday 12th @ 20.00

The Whistle - Tuesday 29th @ 18.00

Nritya Rasanubhavan - Saturday 12th @ 18.00

Mario's Karnataka - Saturday 19th @ 11.00

Space in Space II - Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th

Prayag - Friday 18th @ 19.30

Re:public - Saturday 12th @ 11.00

Raw Energy | Watercolours by Prasanna Kumar - Thursday 17th @ 19.00

Macarons !

Let's start the new year with a sinful recommendation : macarons. For so many days, weeks, months or years you were wondering where to find soft macarons in town, not to dry, not too crispy, with a light cream inside ? Your hunt is over : get them from La Vie en Rose, a small boutique at Mantri Mall (Malleshwaram). In case you cannot find it, call Kevin, the owner-seller husband of the pastry chef who studied with Ladurée : 9008932107. He is French and speaks English with an accent from Provence !