January Low Presents ‘Pending’ in Medai in Bangalore | Photo Credit: Gemini Pai

The performance of January Lo began in peace. The absence of music was striking in the form of detailed makeup or lack of ornamentation. The movements being listed in the audio track were being matched with dance pose, but from the beginning performance from the scene of the dancer’s practice room. The audience was invited to the dancer to sequence for memory, listen to instructions, make notes and find dance.

One of the two performances shown in platform 2025 (Medai, presented by Alif Arts Consultancy in Bangalore), ‘Pending’ of January Lo performed several short dances that make a dance. It discovered recurrence, vulnerability and perfection for the audience’s gaze, accustomed to echoing the “final product” to demand initial processes. Playing out of dance with music and other parafarnellia, the audience experienced both traveling and destination in the January performance.

‘Reflection of an Indian dancer’ by Soraj Subramaniam. Photo Credit: Gemini Pai

Soraj Subramaniam’s ‘reflection of an Indian dancer,’ other performances of platform 2025 were vested in similar subjects, but used their stylistic vocabulary to detect the internalism of a dancer’s relationship for three dance styles. The audience traveled with him, as he on the Indian map and his body landscape (as well as his personal history), in his history (without any complexity), in no complication), no complication) Located at Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Odissi. Against a magnificent written and heard prose-poetry, Soraj’s performance led to the front stories. It is reflected at loss; When the house became a distant, an unknown unit, when it was “mess”. This described the “discovery of a new place” that his dance education and practice enabled.

While the first version of ‘pending’ of January was ‘premiered as a listening body in 2023,’ Soraj demonstrated the ‘reflection of an Indian dancer’ in 2021, later visited the UK and Europe with it. . The ‘A Hearing Body’ was a reaction to a change in the relationship with the dance after her “epidemic”, but the ‘pending’ offered “more fine materials” because it is based on distilled lessons through earlier works, January shares Was. In January, it is said that “is looking for different entry points for the audience to face and experience Odissi,” said in January, “I see how Odyssey sees how Odissi in my southeast Malaysian body My virtual mentorship with three children. Sister (Business Satpathi) developed an agency in my body and practiced which I had never experienced before. This inspired me to make this work. ,

In 2023, the premiere of ‘pending’ took place as a hearing body ‘. Photo Credit: Gemini Pai

She was eager to share “unseen labor (emotional and physical) that goes into practice, and the unbreakable belief dancer takes with her when they show, although the performance opportunities are low and distant,” she She says “The biggest challenge as a mother has been continuously, especially during the pose to be kind to herself (as a mother, and to be present,” says January. Therefore, his focus is on “holy peace” that the practice brings for him.

Soraj says that ‘Reflection of an Indian dancer’ directed by Balbir Singh (Balbir Singh Dance Company, UK) “) demanded to make the Indian dance accessible without the supervision of his complexity.” “The main challenge was maintaining the tone and speed of the prose-poems script, balanced the lineage of dance styles against an autobiographical background.” He looks for “rather than” conflict between idioms “,” he says, comparing his immersive engagement with three forms to be “multilingual”. Recently, his practice is focused on Odissi, ” Especially when I train with Bijayini Satpathi, and recall it again the fresh challenges and possibilities, “they say.

Both ‘pending’ and ‘reflections of an Indian dancer’ both narrated the dance stories in the language made carefully. Maping the mind and body on the stage, they felt the audience inclusive in ways that traditional dance performances are often not. Effectively using break and silence, he made the idea visible, clearly opened the subtux for the experience of the audience.