The Arshinagar Project, in association with Bauria People's Repertory
Theatre, presents a residential workshop on Capoeira and Indigenous
Brazilian music and dance, with Rafael Ceccon.
The workshop will be held in Bauria, a historical site of labour struggle,
situated across the river from Kolkata.
Capoeira is an afro-brazilian dancing fight, that mixes music, rhythm,
dance, martial art and spiritual elements. It is known for its acrobatic
grace.
Through Capoeira and Brazilian traditional dances we will aim to explore
different possibilities of self expression and interaction, with oneself,
with others and with the environment.
Using physical movements, rhythm and Afro-Brazilian dances we will
experience the Brazilian way of play and dance.
The workshop is aimed at theatre activists, dancers, physical practitioners
and anyone interested in exploring their relationship with their own
bodies.
About the Facilitator: Rafael Ceccon (Brazil) is a Physical Education
professor, and has played capoeira since he was a kid, and practiced with
diferent masters. He is a lover of Brazilian traditional music and dance.
He has also worked with community development in slums and villages around
Brazil, applying a methodology called Oasis, which promotes design and
implementation of a community' s dreams by themselves.
Date: January 21-25
For details, e-mail thearshinagarproject@gmail.com, or call 09831731422.
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The Arshinagar Project is envisioned as a collective of artists
and cultural practitioners from different traditional and contemporary
disciplines, as well as practitioners from other disciplines such as
anthropology, education and ecology, for research into performance
as transformational action.
'Arshinagar&# 39; means 'the city of mirrors' , and the name is derived
from a song by Lalon Phokir, one of the greatest masters among
the Bauls of Bengal - wandering mystical musician-performers who
through embodied practice attempt to touch the unbodied.The logo
represents the 'ektara&# 39; (literally 'one-stringed&# 39;) - a drone-like
instrument used in different forms and names in different Asian
cultures, which has come to symbolize the Bauls.
The Arshinagar Project aims to foster a spirit of freedom, respect for
human diversity, ecological harmony and love, among young adults,
youth in colleges and universities, educators and others, through
performances, immersive workshops in urban and natural settings
based on traditions of mystical performance and practice as well as
contemporary performance- craft, through lecture-demonstrati ons,
seminars, and journeys through inner and outer spaces.