In Development: International Collaboration

ĀNANDAṀ is currently in development on its first international commission.

Chalking is a new ensemble work by seminal contemporary choreographer Padmini Chettur (IN). The piece is set to premiere in the 21/22 season and tour throughout 22/23.

“What does it mean to align oneself in space and time? Chalking deconstructs a body’s rotational possibilities -- turning, spinning -- into a vocabulary of tension and resistance, inscribing absence at the very heart of the body’s presence with others. The performance segments and arcs movement -- drawing, erasing, and recharting encounters. The compositional structure is non-narrative, a material grid that stages the politics of dance, of what it means to align oneself in absence, in the presence of others.” —Padmini Chettur

Photos: (colour) Greg Wong, (b&w) Kalaisan Kalaichelvan