CONTAGION

Performance | Space | Community

Performance, Space, Community is a series of 8 online curated conversations and presentations where we invite speakers and attendees to address performance as an art and part of the human act of assembly. The eight sessions feature presenters from across the globe spanning backgrounds of dance, theatre, anthropology, academia, sport, management, business, psychology, literature and more.
The series is imagined and produced by Pickle Factory Dance Foundation, Calcutta in partnership with Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata.
Through the cross-sectoral interactions of conversation and performance in the CONTAGION series, we hope to imagine what our space can and should be to serve the artists, audiences and formats of tomorrow without invalidating, forgetting and replacing those of yesterday.

Curated by: Vikram Iyengar, Sharvari Sastry, Christophe Knoch.
Period: 25 September to 17 October 2020

About
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Vikram Iyengar

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Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.

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Vikram Iyengar

Descriptor, Descriptor

Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.

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Vikram Iyengar

Descriptor, Descriptor

Vikram Iyengar is an arts leader and connector based in Calcutta, India and working internationally. A dancer-choreographer, arts writer, and curator-presenter, he heads the performance company Ranan and the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation. His scope of work spans practice, discourse, critique and management, and revolves around the central tenet of creating deep connections with and through the arts. An ARThink South Asia Arts Management Fellow, Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and alumnus of the Australian International Arts Leaders programme, Vikram was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Government of India for his work in contemporary dance in 2015.

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Contagion: Performance, Space, Community is imagined and produced by Pickle Factory Dance Foundation, Calcutta in partnership with Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata.

The project is co-presented with Offbeat CCU

Project Partners: Goethe Institut, Bangladesh; Australian Consulate, Kolkata; Wales Arts International

Curators: Vikram Iyengar, Sharvari Sastry, Christophe Knoch

Project Management: Kunal Chakraborty

Creatives: Sharanya Chattopadhyay

PR and Communications: Kritika Dey

Social Media: Sangram Mukhopadhyay and Srestha Das Chowdhury

Production: Dana Roy and Rebecca Johns

Documentation: Sohini Banerjee and Aopala Banerjee

Administration: Jayati Chakraborty and Sharmistha Sarker

Credits /

Malavika Banerjee
Sunil Shanbag
Dhruv Bhalla
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Acknowledgements /

Agniva Ray, Analina Sanyal, Ankita Banerjee, Christine Devaney, DAG Museums, Daniel Sim, Deep Ghosh, Dianne Tauro, Dipti Rao, East Bengal Ultras TV, Friso Maecker, Hema Rance, Koninika Roy, Lindsey Colbourne, Mahmud Alam, Malavika Banerjee, Meghdut RoyChowdhury, Madhura Aphale, Mukta Pai, Nicola Morgan, Nimi Ravindran, Nishit Arora, Nora Fleruy, Pallavi Khare, Parmesh Shahani, Ramanjit Kaur, Rashmi Dhanwani, Ruchira Das, Saleem Gondal, Sameera Iyengar, Sanchayita Bhattacharya, Shiva Pathak, Sreetoma Purkayastha, Subhagata Singha (Rivu), Sudeshna Banerjee, Sudipta Ghosh, Sumit Roy, Sumona Chakravarty, Toshal Gandhi, Yadhukrishnan ™

Pickle Factory Dance Foundation, Calcutta is a not-for-profit
company registered under Section 8 of The Companies Act, 2013.
The company was incorporated on 12 July 2017.

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