BANGALORE: Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels Ltd will present The Park’s New Festival — Edition V, 2011 curated by Prakriti Foundation, a unique initiative to promote culture and contemporary art by bringing together emerging artistes on a common platform.This edition of the country’s most talked about cultural extravaganza will be bigger than ever before.The discerning audiences can enjoy the festival across six cities — New Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.The Bangalore leg of the festival is from September 16 to 18, wherein Bangaloreans will see performances in modern theatre, contemporary dance and hip hop by celebrated artistes.On the occasion of announcing the Edition V, Priya Paul, Chairperson, Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels Ltd said, “With The Park’s New Festival, we aim to deepen our relationship with the emerging art scenario in the country, revisit our rich heritage that boasts cultural endowments and provide a platform to international and domestic artistes to showcase their talent.All the artistes performing at the festival have put together excellent pieces of engaging acts and are looking forward to entertain each one of you.This season of ‘The Park’s New Festival’ is going national starting at New Delhi and after travelling through major metros would culminate at Chennai in a week long avatar.We are happy to associate with Prakriti Foundation who helped us put together the sixcity grand festival.” “ T h e Park’s New Festival has become a platform f o r e x - tremely skilled artistes from different parts of the world to showcase engaging art forms,” said Ranvir Shah, Founder, Prakriti Foundation.This edition, the festival would see Maya Krishna Rao, Parijat Desai Dance Company and Dnoax coming alive with extra ordinary performances.While Maya Krishna Rao who is known for her solo performances, would present philosophical comedy theatre based on current political events and social issues, Parijat Desai Dance Company would present innovative footwork patterns and dance techniques rewiring the positions of Bharatanatyam.Peter Arun Pfaff would present a captivating museum theatre complemented by short plays by Short+Sweet.The season would also witness DNOAX — one the latest and biggest hip hop groups in the world bringing to the discerning Indian audience an act of rap to leave them beguiled.More details about the performance: Parijat Desai Dance Company will perform at Koramangala at 7 pm on September 16.Choreographer Parijat Desai integrates the sculptural lines, intricate rhythms and theatricality of Indian dance with the full-bodied movement and conceptual experimentation of modern.Through this hybrid language, she expresses a voice at once (South Asian and American).Using emotions and humour, as well as the visceral power of dance itself, Desai communicates across the boundaries of culture, nation and religion.Make Space: Set to electronic music by South Asian American artists, Make Space rewires the sculptural positions of Indian dance using dynamic modern dance, and remixes classical footwork rhythms.Dancers undulate and slide their bodies, creating openings within rigid classical forms, travelling out into space and into the air.Songs To Live For: In Songs To Live For Choreographer Parijat Desai explores the sublime Hindustani love songs, but she brings a completely new dance styles that blends the full-bodied movement and partnering from Western contemporary dance with subtle Indian classical gesture.Maya Krishna Rao lends a new dimension to contemporary Indian theatre — both on and off stage.She acts, sings, raps, dances, writes her own scripts, directs herself, and is one of the very few woman stand-up comedians in India.Maya is also visiting faculty at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, where she teaches acting.Her shows have travelled the world, filled with wicked humour handling a range of themes that go from a random item in the morning newspapers to the Natyashastra; she covers the entire gamut from the political, to the social and the philosophical.Quality Street: This is a solo performance based on a delightful short story by the Nigerian award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.The story has universal appeal; it is funny; and it perfectly pitches present-day concerns about culture.With minor modifications, the story fits into any setting.It’s a non-stop ‘boxing match’ between a mother and her daughter, which is exciting and moving.What is special is the way the actor switches between characters.With music to accompany her, she talks, she sings, she raps.Mrs Njoku’s daughter, Sochienne, has just got home, having completed her studies in the U.S.She is changed.Living abroad has given her seemingly new values but has strangely also brought her close to her roots.But the mother is western in a colonial way- and the stage is set for a clash.The play will be staged at Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar on September 18.DNOAX -- Universal Hip Hop Reborn: Hip Hop is no longer the identity of one race, country or continent.Under their own record label Desi Media Networks, 15 rappers get together as DNOAX (Desi Number One Artistes X) making Hip Hop a universal phenomenon.Snypah Killah aka Varun started this with four rappers in Chennai and over seven years many have joined together to form DNOAX.Their diverse music challenges the common misconception of Hip Hop as music of drugs, cash, cars, clothes, semi-clad women, bling, etc.They will be performing at I-Bar, The Park Bangalore, at 8.30 pm, on September 17.
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