Panchajanya | ಪಾಂಚಜನ್ಯ
Choreography and staging: Girish Kumar Rachappa
Music: Hao Wu
Poem: Amogh Swamy
Dancers / co-creators: Yannis Brissot / Selene Martello
Special thanks go to Donato Deliano and the team of TANZ_KASSEL for their support and good cooperation.
Premiered on 10.03.2023 at TIF – Staatstheater Kassel, Germany as part of Dance series in TIF season 2: LET’S TALK ABOUT BODIES IN SPACE
Trailer : Panchajanya_Vimeo
Panchajanya, the conch shell used by Lord Krishna in the Mahabharata war, inspires us to apply the wisdom of the “Bhagavad Gita” to our daily battles. We often face emotional conflicts when making decisions, and our choices impact our actions, emotions, and memories. “Panchajanya” explores these conflicts and how the body responds to self-questioning. This piece is a humble attempt to bring the concept of the conch shell into our daily lives.
SHAKTI | ಶಕ್ತಿ
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Girish Kumar Rachappa
Dance and creation: Ingjerd Solheim, Maria Paz Garcia
Dramaturgy: Fernando Domínguez (EurAsia Member)
Music: Hao Wu
Production Assistant: Akshatha Ramesh (EurAsia Dancer)
Photo and Video: Mayur Revanna
Poem: Amogh Swamy
Premiered on 16 & 17.12.2022 at Hamburger Sprechwerk, Hamburg.
Trailer: Shakti_Video
Shakti means power, energy, and force that resides in and around us.
Shaki portrays the relationship between two dancers in ‘the study’ of balanced and unbalanced forces in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. It explores how proximity generates relationships between the characters ruled by energy and space and how the axis engages the body in a non-stop process of keeping upright against gravity.
An object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What are the consequences of unbalanced forces between dancers in each and different dimensions?
Shakti is a product of the research project “Collapse-Recover” funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and supported by EurAsia Dance Project International Network directed by Stefano Fardelli
PASSAGE
Performed at Solaris yoga centro de bienestar and CDC Raul Gamboa Del IPBA. Av. Universidad S/N, Shoonya Dance in Ghent, Belgium and Italy at the Milan Oltre Festival and Narajidancefestival, Lentini and Lasferadanzafeatival, Padova.
- prāṇa - | ಪ್ರಾಣ
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Girish Kumar Rachappa
Dance and creation: Deborah Dalla Valle, Ingjerd Solheim, Julien Müller
Dramaturgy: Stefano Fardelli
Photo and video: Amin Bahremand
Music: Pimon Lekler
“prāṇa” was Girish Kumar Rachappa’s first big production. It was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and Premiered at Hamburger sprechwerk, Hamburg, Germany 2021. As well as invited by Tanz.Nord Gastspiel to perform at Rendsburg and Ahrensburg in 2022.
We breathe,
We breathe constantly and unconsciously.
The average adult takes about 16 breaths per minute. That is 20.000 breaths per day and about 600 million breaths in a lifetime.
Humans create patterns and rhythms unconsciously; the way they move, think, sleep, respond, walk, laugh and cry. Similarly, breath has a rhythm. When experiencing different emotions the rhythm of the breath changes. Anxiousness causes rapid breathing and a strain in the voice. Happiness creates a slow and steady breath and a cheerful tone in the voice. When three dancers use voice and breath as an influence to their bodies what happens in terms of their volume, rhythm and quality? How can one body influence the other?
“prāṇa” is a product of the research project “Trust Your Gut”. It questions how breath and voice can influence the physical structure of the body, the mind and emotions. It explores how it can open up the different dimensions in relation to space.
Supported by EurAsia Dance Project International Network directed by Stefano Fardelli and CDSH-Contemporary Dance School Hamburg.
CHECK-IN
Chreography and performers : Girish Kumar Rachappa, Ingjerd Solheim, Rose Marie Lindstrøm.
Performed at Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany 2020. https://www.gallerytalk.net/reeperbahn-festival-spezial/
A system is meant to keep everything in order. A well-functioning society is where rules and regulations are respected. What happens if the rules and regulations become too strict and biased to certain groups in the society?
Will people respect the biased rules like a bunch of puppets or will they have enough power to rise their voices again the system?
SANATANA | ಸನಾತನ
Choreography and Performer : Girish Kumar Rachappa
As part of CDSH Education Program -Solo Project “SANATANA” Performed At Hamburger Sprechwerk, Hamburg 2019, Germany and also was selected as top 30 and performed virtually at Gdansk Solo Dance Contest, Poland
https://www.facebook.com/gdanskifestiwaltanca/posts/4463576683714081
In this piece, by imagining body as mind. I wanted to show how thoughts of past, actions of present leads to chaos in Mind from lenience to extreme through physicality of body.
“We all live with the notion of “Everything in this materialistic world has to end one day and limit our knowledge and the way of living”. But according to Vedic scripts, the universe is going through a continuous process of creation, sustain, dissolution. Similarly Humans, when you aren’t being present you become a victim of time. Your mind is pulled into the past or the future, or both. When our lives become dictated by thoughts and emotions attached to past events and potential future outcomes, standing peacefully rooted in the present becomes increasingly rare and becomes completely chaos.”