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Welcome to Chaturangan
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Chaturangan believes culturally diverse dance to be an integral part of the social and cultural fabric of 21st century British culture. Chaturangan's initiatives support the development of South Asian dance in particular and other dance forms in general. Chaturangan delivers
Chaturangan works in partnership with
Chaturangan acknowledges support from the Arts Council England for their generous support throughout its development. Chaturangan's artistic director is Bisakha Sarker. See elsewhere for a more formal statement of our aims and objectives. Chaturangan is proud to have been a key part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture programme in 2008. |
 Bisakha meeting the Queen during a visit to the Waiting project Photo © Liverpool Echo |
Fleeting MomentsFleeting Moments is an artistic intervention to enhance the health and wellbeing of people at the early stages of Dementia and their support network and to improve their quality of life. Through a series of choreolabs, residencies and consultation the artistic team will work with people from this marginalised group to create multi artform culturally diverse productions that will be performed on two occasions at The Bluecoat.
The production will provide a professional platform for the work created for and in consultation with people with early onset of dementia and will subtly and sensitively weave audience participation into the pieces to encourage greater engagement of this target audience.
The artists supported by a focus group of the target audience , will collectively or individually explore different themes to create short piece of work that will invite the audience to engage with it. The engagement will be both physical and intellectual.
The performances will also benefit other people with related neurological conditions and behaviour patterns e.g. those living with Parkinson’s disease.
The first performance will be in late February 2013. Contact Chaturangan if you would like to get involved in the project.
Landmark initiatives
In December 2010 Chaturangan, in partnership with MDI and the Foundation for Community Dance, held the first national dance and dementia conference in Liverpool, with particular focus on the rôle of dance in the care of dementia.
This innovative conference was a multi-disciplinary arts event combining academic papers, keynote dances, presentations of art based research by leading practitioners and specially commissioned dance performances and films.The conference celebrated best practice in this field and brings together a diverse range of artists, health and medical professionals, care staff, biomedical researchers, arts organisations and friends and families of those living with dementia.
transition
transition was a two-day
conference investigating heritage through dance
held in partnership with Sampad and the National Museums Liverpool
7th & 8th March 2008 at the World Museum Liverpool
Nationally acclaimed Artistic Director, Bisakha Sarker, presented a full programme of events with thought provoking lectures and challenging debates. Taking dance as its focal point this two day conference explored and examined what heritage means in today's society.
For an archive of conference information, see here.
The conference was managed by the Aspire Trust Ltd. Email Aspire Trust.
2006
was designated "Year of Performance" by Liverpool Culture Company
as part of the build-up to the Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.
In response to this, Chaturangan ran a conference entitled Marks
of time in partnership with Hope University. The conference
explored appropriate performance practice in advancing years, and was
held on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th January 2007.
"The Marks of Time conference was a great success. We had over 80 participants as well as many performers, and the event was inspirational for all concerned. The highlight was the performance by Bisakha Sarker on the Friday evening, with musical accompaniment by Chris Davies. A few phrases from the conference will remain in my memory: "Brightness of Life"; "Add life to years as well as years to life". Thanks to all of Chaturangan and Aspire Trust for the work they put into the organisation. " - Eric Foxley
For the conference schedule and an archive of conference information click here.
For links to some of the submitted papers click here.
Videos from the conference can be found at the Marks Of Time blog - www.marksoftime.blogspot.com.
All 13
of the Marks Of Time 2007 performances are now archived as a set of 3
DVDs. For more details contact marksoftime@luden.co.uk
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Arts
in Health
Waiting
A project in conjunction with Liverpool Primary Care Trust. Chaturangan
has provided a creative approach responding to the differing needs of
people in ‘waiting’ settings. We worked with artists experienced
in working sensitively with people in different situations. The first
phase of the project comprised six sessions in different in six different
situations (for example a hospital ward, a clinic, a hospice and a patient
support group) and the making of a film "Precious" by Gina Czarnecki
suitable for showing in waiting rooms. The second phase will focus on
the mental health area, and the development of an interactive installation
of the film "Precious". The film was shown by the Liverpool
Culture Company at the UK Public Health Conference at the Echo Arena in
Liverpool in April 2008.
The full Waiting project was delivered by Fact, Comedy Trust and Chaturangan.
Liverpool Culture Company has produced a "coffee-table" book
summing up the work of the whole project, and distributed it to all GP
surgeries in Liverpool.
Warrington Borough Council commissioned Bisakha to create an exercise video suitable for use in residential home, and dance groups for the over-50s. As part of the project Chris Davis and Bisakha worked in residential homes and with local mature dance groups. There will be four films, three suitable for chair-based exercise and one for more mobile participants. The emphasis is on creativity. The films will be webcast when ready.
Bisakha provided a one-day workshop for "The Place" theatre.The project looked at working with older people in hospitals.
See here for details of Chaturangan's performance at Blythe House Day Hospice in Buxton.
Sacred
Move
2004 was
celebrated as year of "Faith in one City"by Liverpool
Culture Company. In response Chaturangan produced "Sacred
Move", a soulful production of new dance, live music and
spoken words. Chaturangan has created an initiative that celebrates
Liverpool’s diverse cultural and devotional heritage. The
first two performances took place in Liverpool's two cathedrals
in 2004.
In 2005, Liverpool Culture Company's "Year of the Sea", Chaturangan toured "Across the Sea", a programme of extensive community projects together with a performance of "Sacred Move" to Cork (European Capital of Culture 2005).
In January 2007, at the invitation of Liverpool Culture Company, Chaturangan performed “Sacred Move” at the St George's Hall, Liverpool to launch their cultural programme for 2007.
Dance
of the Night Sky
This
is a Planetarium show based on an ancient Indian myth about the origin
of the Plough, the Pleiades and the double stars Alcar and Mizar.
It was produced as a collaboration between Bisakha Sarker, William Radice, Arun Ghosh, Dan Soul and Kali Dass.
The installation
was shown every Sunday afternoon through 2006 and 2007 at the Planetarium.
Our
work is supported by, among others
was a conference investigating heritage through dance
Photos
by Simon Richardson
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