PLAY
14-15 August 2014 // George Town Festival

Choreography / Performed by : Shantala Shivalingappa & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Live music: Patrizia Bovi, Gabriele Miracle, Olga Wojciechowska, Tsubasa Hori
Production : Eastman

Play pivots on two intertwined conceits: the idea of play-acting, the role-playing required in theatre, and the games people play. Games of chess, games of seduction, games of masquerades. But in the process of evading the self, sometimes more is revealed than concealed.

In Play, Shantala Shivalingappa weaves in vocabulary of kuchipudi, both rhythmic patterns and gestural codes, quietly and naturally, into a piece that constructs itself around tales of love and separation. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui revels in the expressive canvas this provides where a minute inflection of the hand can transform the narrative, taking him into a world that he does not often get the chance to explore.

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George Town Festival Secretariat
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Coproducers : deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp, Belgium), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Theaterfestival Boulevard (‘s Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands), Fondazione Musica per Roma (Rome, Italy), Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (Germany), Festival Automne en Normandie (Rouen, France) and Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (USA).
Eastman is resident at deSingel International Art Campus (Antwerp) and is supported by the Flemish authorities and BNP Paribas Foundation.


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