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With the New Horizons performances, you can discover and follow a new generation from India and the Netherlands. Various creatives managed to distinguish themselves during the pandemic with their innovative online activities and their new, groundbreaking productions.
Poernima Gobardhan is one of the great talents of Indian dance in the Netherlands. In her work, she translates, deliberately and with integrity, the ancient stories, subjects, and concepts from classical Indian literature into choreographies that have their impact, even today. Tonight she dances two solos.
My Pitṛs
The modest My Pitṛs (my ancestors) premiered online last year during the online edition of India Dance Festival. The performance questions the linear sense of time. Our present cannot be understood without the past. The past, the history of our ancestors, also plays a decisive role in our individual timeline. In this way every life is preserved in the minds of subsequent generations and death is seen as a transition to another phase in contrast to the Western view where death is seen as an end station. In this solo by Gobardhan, Bharata Natyam is a movement language that reflects on the phenomenon of mortality in our lives.
Elly & Me
In 2019 Poernima made the solo Elly & Me for the CaDance Festival, based on the novel Eline Vere by The Hague writer Louis Couperus. The solo shows how Poernima relates to Eline, a beautiful, seductive woman who is somewhat dreamy and romantic in nature, but at the same time shows a secret rebellion and does not want to conform to the expectations of society. The 19th-century character shows poignantly many similarities with the woman of today. With sky-high paradoxical expectations and so-called taboo-transcending culture, it seems even easier to lose yourself in misery. Or has the emancipated woman from the west long been cleared of these kinds of plagues? Free from fears and depression?
choreografie & dans Poernima Gobardhan | regie Leo Spreksel | lichtontwerp Albert Tulling | muziek Peter Lemmens | kostuum Rekha Rani
Watch Poernima's video portrait.
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