Dance/Performance/Film Lectures & Wkshps with Dr. Suparna Banerjee & Dr. Angana Jhaveri – 3/14-18
Dr. Suparna Banerjee and Dr. Angana Jhaveri
Dance/Performance Studies Lectures and Dance Film Workshops
March 14 – 18, 2017
Open to the Public at the Dance Building
Suparna & Angana Wkshps Flyer
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:
TUESDAY March 14 :
9AM – 10:15AM
Lecture: I/digi-I? Reading the ‘digital double’: new aesthetics and technoculture in contemporary/Bharatanatyam choreographies with Dr. Suparna Banerjee
Drawing on contemporary/Bharatanatyam practice, this lecture will discuss how new dance aesthetics are reconfigured through digitisation of the body. I argue that the digital double is seen not merely as an aesthetic tool or psychological state of mind, but as a methodology broadly associated with the politics of the body, identity, history, new aesthetics and technoculture.
THURSDAY March 16:
9AM – 10:15AM
Lecture: Indian Dance Forms and Films with Dr. Angana Jhaveri
This presentation is an introduction to some of the best known Indian Classical Dance forms through films made in India and includes a comparison of dance documentaries on Bharata Natyam made by established film makers. Excerpts of some of Jhaveri’s films on Indian Heritage will be screened.
2PM – 3:15PM
Lecture: Raslila: a cosmic dance, a temple ceremony, a theatre arts dissertation with Dr. Angana Jhaveri
A personal, experiential journey.
3:15PM – 4:30PM
Lecture: Choreographing/researching heterotopia: (dis/re)located places and lived temporalities with Dr. Suparna Banerjee
Contemporary Bharatanatyam practitioners in Britain have utilized disparate city places and objects, either physically or through digital technology to create new spatio-temporal aesthetics. This lecture will discuss Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of ‘heterotopia’ and examine how relationships among these fleeting places in contemporary dances fit in with his conceptualization.
SATURDAY March 18
10AM – 2PM
Dance Film Workshop with Dr. Angana Jhaveri and Dr. Suparna Banerjee
Meet at the Dance Building Studio. We will travel to a site specific location.
Guest Lecturers and Workshop Instructors:
Dr. Suparna Banerjee
Scholar, Artist, Dance Writer
Suparna Banerjee is an independent scholar, artist and dance writer from India. She obtained her PhD in Dance Studies from the University of Roehampton, UK. She is trained in Bharatanatyam dance and has received several awards for her performances and teaching. Her choreographies have been showcased in many countries, including Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the USA and the UK.
Her research interests include South Asian dance, digital performance, cultural studies, site-specific dance and critical pedagogy. She has taught in many undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the USA and contributed to developing dance curriculum for the undergraduate liberal education degree in India. Her writings on dance have appeared in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Angana Jhaveri
Producer/Director Illumine Films
Angana Jhaveri feels extremely fortunate to have been born to a classical dancer in India the land of timeless traditions and spiritual masters. She trained early with her mother, her sisters and their guru from Manipur and performed with the Jhaveri Sisters Dance Company all over India and abroad. To compliment her interest in classical dance she received a Masters in Ancient Indian Culture and then a PhD on the Raslila Dance Theater of Manipur from Michigan State University, funded by the then JDR 3rd Fund (Asian Cultural Council).
Currently, under the banner of Illumine Films, Angana produces and directs documentaries that share her understanding and experience of the rich Indian and Asian heritage as well as films that introduce individuals and institutions doing extraordinary not for profit work for social good. Her films have been funded by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, the Indian Government’s Department of Culture and Education and she has done three films of the CSMVS Museum in Bombay (The Prince of Wales Museum)
Made possible in part by Special Funding from the Hawaiʻi State Legislature
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