*Background* :
Ghosts of Shakespeare is an annual festival that is meant to confront the
world of Shakespeare (primarily) from the vantage of Indian performance
idioms and aesthetics, as well as contemporary subjectivities and lived
experience. It is meant to exist, both physically and metaphorically, in
marginal spaces. This means that it intends to explore non-traditional
venues, including open and public spaces, as well as reach out to genres
other than traditional theatre, such as dance, performance art, street
theatre and other forms of theatre activism, and genres which defy any easy
categorization. It looks at Shakespeare as a talisman of protest and
humanistic articulation, and hence embraces artistic actions that
articulate disturbing and perhaps unpopular truths about the world and
times we inhabit.
Keeping in mind our essentially trans-disciplinary nature (performance
research, social action and theoretical discourse), we are interested in
exploring Shakespeare as a living, and often disquieting presence, not as a
dead icon of elitism.
'Ghosts of shakespeare&# 39; reflects this - that Shakespeare has a contemporary
afterlife in often unexpected forms. The spirit of it deliberately draws
upon the anarchic ethos of small-scale, alternative fringe festivals in
different parts of the world. We are interested in creative acts which are
not big and well-funded, but rather which have rough-edges and are
vulnerable. We'd like to bring together established names, emerging
artists, as well as campus outfits on the same platform, without creating
hierarchies. We are interested in the Shakespeare of in-betweens: between
past and present, between east and west, between the sacral and the
scatological - a sort of liminal Shakespeare.
*The 2014 Edition:*
For the 2014 edition, which happens to be Shakespeare&# 39;s 450th birth
anniversary, we are interested in looking at Shakespeare 'translated&# 39;. By
this we do not mean mere performances of Shakespeare in languages other
than English, but his 'translation&# 39;, much in the same sense that Bottom, in
the Dream is 'translated&# 39;, into other societal contexts, forms of
mytho-poesis and performance idioms.
We are looking at performances, performative talks, workshop proposals and
other un-defined propositions. It could, for instance, be a solo
performance for one spectator, taking place in a bedroom, or an ensemble
piece on a staircase, a duo in a drawing room or terrace, or something that
oscillates between a wokshop and a talk. The only conditions are these:
1) The total size of the team, including cast and crew, cannot exceed six
2) The performance has to be made for or be adaptable to non-proscenium
venues. We have as venues, homes, galleries, private gardens as well as
public places like the banks of the Hooghly river and parks, street-sides,
etc.
3) Ghosts of Shakespeare is by principle a non-ticketed, zero-budget
festival. This means we are unable to pay a performance fee or reimburse
travel expenses. We will, however, host you in Kolkata and take care of you
all your local expenses. At the end of each performance, we will take
collections from the audience and pass this on to the artist(s).
Please send in applications to: ghostsofshakespeare festival@ gmail.com.
Applications should include:
í‚· Name of the Artist/Group
í‚· Name of the piece/presentation/ intervention
í‚· Genre (optional)
í‚· Total size of the ensemble (including performers/technici ans/others)
í‚· Duration
í‚· Technical requirements
í‚· Brief synopsis (100 words max)
. Links to online videos of the performance or previous work
The deadline for sending in proposals is February 15th, and we
will inform selected artists/presenters by March 1st.
For further details and updates, please visit
facebook.com/ GhostsOfShakespe are
Warmly,
The Arshinagar Project Team
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