Park’s cultural journey
The 12th edition of ‘The Park’s New Festival 2018’ is set to be held across Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad from August 30 to September 21.
The Park Hotels and Prakriti Foundation brings a bouquet of commendable performing arts across music, dance, comedy and dramatic theatre with ‘The Kick-starting in Chennai, the - tural rendezvous is set to be held across six cities over a period of almost a month and will culminate in Hyderabad. The artists include:
Stories by Hand by Preeti Vasudevan
Stories by Hand is a solo work through stories which are personal, mythical, and social and are narrated through the continuous placement and displacement of gestures affected by memory. Stories by Hand takes the hand gestures of Bharatanatyam as the basis for a storytelling dance-theatre interweaving east and west, past and present, the mythic and the everyday. The show is experienced through three clustered themes of relationships, the dancing body and death.
Noise Over Artists: A stand-up comedy show by Rajiv Rajaram & Utsav Chakraborty
Featuring two voice over professionals who have been creating more noises than voices since their childhoods, Rajiv Rajaram and Utsav Chakraborty aim to take through the everyday absurdities that voice-over artists endure and the impact of fake news, family WhatsApp groups and absolute polarisation, two men will stand up and try to make you understand the greatest weapon that is used by our
To See or Not to See: A talk by Ana Lamata
- temporary Art History, has largely focused her research on the resonances between art and science. To See or Not to See is a reflection on how, at the beginning of the of X-rays changed the way the world was perceived and the notion of reality itself. Today, when new technologies are challenging again our conceptions of reality, art can play a vital role in decoding these discoveries, questioning conventions and just helping us see.
Two Sides of Karma by IndoSoul
from Chennai that has extensively performed across by violinist and singer Karthick its third album, ‘Two sides of Karma’, is a testimony to their success. They believe in at its core and global in its sounding. The songs from the album premiered in USA other notable music directors. He composed a song for a Bollywood movie along the way, as well as jingles for multiple TV ads.