Losing English, The Artistic Way

'I lost my English': (17th Feb, Pettachi Auditorium,Luz Church Road) A fusion of West African dance forms in line with the Indian, “I lost my English” is a non-narrative stream of consciousness adapted in dance form. A mixture of dual voices belonging to varied cultures, finding one single language that consummates themes like alienation, frustration and loneliness is its core of creation. The artistes Tim Winse, a multi-instrumentalist from Burkina Faso plays the Kora, a 21-stringed West-African Harp and the Lolo, with Choreography and Dance credits from Serge Aime Coulibaly (Burkina Faso) and Kalpana Raghuraman (The Netherlands/India), the trio blends to arrive at a new paradigm of freedom of expression, albeit parallel nativities. An exploratory art work in the form of communication and the many voices lost in it is experienced through a common music and dance in the “Duniya”- A word meaning the “World” that paradoxically connects the West African and Indian (Hindi) language culture. While the West African dance in creative collaboration with the Indian Bharatanatyam, goes beyond the structure and grammar of the art form, the transformation of the ancient through the contemporary reaches out as an intensive quest.