Entering its sixth year, the Chandigarh Arts and Heritage festival kicked off on Wednesday with the event ‘Interface Dance Festival’,performed by Sapphire creations Dance company and Robert Moses Dance Company.Around 14 dancers enthralled the audience with their performance.
Robert Moses Kin presented excerpts from the repertory works recreated into a new work exclusively for Interface.
It included reconsider aspects of work exploring topics ranging from oral traditions in African American culture (Word of Mouth), the life, times, and work of author James Baldwin (Biography), and the dark side of contemporary urban culture (Cause), to the nuanced complexities of parentage and identity (The Cinderella Principle), the interception of faith and fables in modern life (Fable & Faith), and the simple joy and expressive power of pure movement (Toward September, Other Gods, The Soft Sweet Smell of Firm Warm Things).
Sapphire presented ‘Parivahitam’ — Perspectives in Motion at INTERFACE 2014.‘Parivahitam’ was conceived as a cross-journey between an ordered, disciplined and beautiful past and a chaotic, atomised and unhinged present.
The dancers enthralled the audience and won thunderous applause.Earlier during the day, on the spot painting competition was held at Government College of Art on the theme Chandigarh the city of art and heritage.
On Thursday, there will be Kathak Pravaha performance consisting of three pieces — Ni-ra-tata-dhang, Pandhant and Taran followed by Nrityarupa : A mosaic of Indian Dance during the five days long festival.