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Artist Sovan Kumar’s works on show at Kochi use trucks as a symbol to explores political and personal struggles

Sovan Kumar’s painting May First at Marina Beach | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The truck is pink this time,  Fluorescent, absurd,  A joke rolling through the streets, On its back,  Men made of stone,  Green and cold,  Push against the air,  Their muscles taut, frozen in the eternal effort To move what will not move. …

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A space in Kolkata where contemporary dance works find their true meaning

Padmini Chettur’s ‘Stilling’ staged as part of ‘Holding Space’ at Alipore Museum Since 2018, the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation has been a ‘holding space’ for the “practice, discourse and presentation of dance and movement work” within unusual spaces in Kolkata. In their just-concluded fifth season,  they invited audiences to join them in ‘holding space’ for…

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Poet Kumaranasan’s works find their way into a Mohiniyattam performance

Priya S Nair chose the poem Duravastha | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Most Mohiniyattam performers in their effort to present something new, do not seem to be paying much attention to traditional pieces. Hence, ’Kavya nritarchana’, based on three prominent works of legendary Malayalam poet Kumaranasan, made for a delightful watch. Conceptualised by guru Kalamandalam…

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