Bangalore according to me: July 2017

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Rorschach Touch | Diya Naidu - Saturday 22nd @ 18.30

Initiated at Gender Bender 2016, produced by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and Sandbox Collective
Rorschach Touch is an exploration of perception in the context of gendered bodies, but with the wish to go beyond gendered limitations.

The performance, which gets its name from the famous Thematic Apperception Test by Henry A. Murray and Christiana D. Morgan, hopes to ask the viewer: How do you see?

While it allows and invites you to get close and personal with the performers, it also gives you a sensorial experience brought about by movement and touch. The work is intimate and asks you to be present, to sink in, get carried away and also to look into your own self. It is a deeply personal work and treats the body and its states with sensitivity, humour and intense candour. The hope is that while you watch, you will really be witnessing yourself, getting to know what disturbs or stimulates you, what interests or offends you... even what you desire and shy away from and how you interpret human interactions.

Rorschach Touch leaning

© Dannilla Donald CorreyaThe audience is called upon to lean in and watch every nuance and detail, including their own perceptions, habits, biases and emotional responses. The piece starts slowly and quietly to set the pace for a sensorial, movement-based experience. Often images and scenes are repeated with tiny variations in context and character. This juxtaposition offers the viewer a chance to really see themselves in light of how they receive the situation on stage.

Choreographed by: Diya Naidu
Produced by: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore
Supported by: Shoonya - Centre for Art and Somatic Practices
Performers: Ajeesh K Balakrishnan, Akshata Joshi, Asha Ponikiewska, Dayita Nereyeth, Masoom Parmar, Niranjan Harish
Production Managers: Anishaa Tavag and Masoom Parmar