GARBA RELOADED

2016

Scenography and dramaturgy for a dance performance, approx. 20 min.
Viscosistadt, Emmenbrücke – opening of the new Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst building, 23 and 24 September 2016

For this performance I developed the scenography and dramaturgy. On the round platform of a former sewage plant I set up twelve construction fences covered with white tarpaulins to form a circle. The circle stands for the “garba”, the womb, at the centre of the traditional dance from Gujarat. Eight projectors and a drummer at the centre played the circle from within. The dancers arrived carrying tea lights and entered the circle. There they became shadows among the projected ornaments, an idea I took from traditional Indian shadow theatre. In the end the womb grew too full and released them back to the audience.

Scenography and dramaturgy: Barbara Hennig Marques
Costumes: Stephany Geiser
Choreography (traditional Garba dance), animation and visuals: Shweta Bendre, Alpika Singh, Deval Vala (NID, India)
Advisor: François Chalet
VJing+ module, led by Robert Müller, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst