Premiere run of 'Those Who Could Not Hear The Music': March 2013

and those who were dancing were thought to be insane by 

those who could not hear the music

Nietzsche

A Ranan production

1, 2, 7, 9, 15, 16 March 2013

Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta

Entry cards will be available at Max Mueller Bhavan from 18 February 2013, 1pm to 7pm every day except Sundays.
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Ranan’s new performance piece doubly inspired by the life, music and writings of and on Beethoven, and Vikram Seth’s novel – An Equal Music. Weaving together these texts along with a wide range of Beethoven’s compositions, the piece explores the question, “how would you deal with going deaf?”

Two letters form the core of this performance. One written by Julia, the protagonist of An Equal Music to her fellow musician and lover Michael; and the other written by composer Ludwig Van Beethoven to his brothers. Both letters deal with the pain of inevitable and irretrievable loss as their writers come to terms with their growing deafness – a loss all the more poignant since it involves the one sense central to the world of music that both these individuals – one from contemporary fiction and one from European musical history – inhabit.

Ranan’s unique combination of text, movement and Kathak dance explores individual and collective, personal and epic themes that arise out of this deep sense of loss: themes of fear, humiliation, love, solitude, communication and artistic expression … questions which humanity rediscovers and addresses anew age after age, and questions which Beethoven’s music still evokes.

A photographic interpretation by Anubha Fatehpuria inspired by the theme, will be on display at Max Mueller Bhavan from 20 February 2013.

CREDITS

Concept and Direction

Vikram Iyengar

Created with

Amlan Chaudhuri

Anubha Fatehpuria

Dana Roy

Debashree Bhattacharya

Jayati Chakraborty

Rhea Das

Sohini Debnath

Vikram Iyengar

Costume Design

Katy Lai Roy

Costume Execution

Dana Roy

Lighting Design

Sudip Sanyal

Publicity Design

Sukanya Ghosh

Photographs, Publicity Images, Slides

Anubha Fatehpuria

Properties

Indudipa Sinha

Music Editing

Subhagata Singha

Sound Control

Vaivaswat Tyagi

PR and Coordination

Ruchira Das

Acknowledgements

Max  Mueller Bhavan – Goethe Institut, Calcutta

Sarmistha Sarker

Dr. Martin Waelde

Faaeza Jasdanwala

Sudeshna Banerjee