The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), India’s premier arts and culture institution, in association with the British Council, the UK's international organisation for cultural relations, brings you a sensational contemporary dance double-bill by renowned British dance production house Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company (SJDC). Bruise Blood and Faultline will receive its Mumbai premier on November 14, 2010, 6:30 pm at Jamshed Bhabaha Theatre, NCPA.
The exhilarating Bruise Blood (2009) is set to a remix of Steve Reich’s politically potent Come Out by composer Glyn Perrin. The piece opens with a powerful solo performance by charismatic beatboxer, RoxorLoops, before the eight dancers take over the stage with Jeyasingh’s intense, thrilling choreography.
Faultline (2007) contains some of Jeyasingh’s most notable choreography to date, performed with sharpness and speed by the company’s dancers. Inspired by Gautam Malkani’s novel ‘Londonstani’, Faultline paints a gripping picture of the turbulent tensions among 21st century British-Asian youth. Scanner’s electronic sound score is interwoven with music by Errollyn Wallen movingly sung by the classical Indian soprano, Patricia Rozario. Pete Gomes’ flickering monochrome film shot in Southall and Brick Lane in London adds to the intensity of the atmosphere. The performance begins with Duets with Automobile, a 15-minute film on contemporary dance by Terry Braun and Jeyasingh.
