Catalyst
Venue: Experimental Theatre
Date: 21st July 2022
Time: 6:30 pm
Fees
Member Price: Rs.360 & 270/-
Non Member Price: Rs.400 & 300/-
The national lockdown may have taken away a lot of privileges from us, but it has also been a good teacher, a catalyst that has sown seeds of new knowledge and forced artistes to start thinking out of the box to create work never thought of before.This evening will feature choreographies that have been born during the lockdown, some of which have been presented online in a limited space to suit the mobile camera screen and will now be remodelled to be featured on a live performance stage. There will be presentations by group members who have redesigned a choreography that was originally created by merging videos shot in their individual spaces. The NCPA brings them all together, not online but physically, after a long time.
NCPA Promising Artist's Series
Venue: Experimental Theatre
Date: 22nd July 2022
Time: 6:30 pm
Tanay Rege has studied the tabla for seven years under Praveen Karkare at Sharda Sangeet Vidyalaya. Currently, he is continuing the taleem of Punjab gharana under Yogesh Samsi as part of ‘Support to Guru’ initiative. A holder of scholarships from several institutions, including the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT), Rege has also been conferred with numerous awards. He stood first at the All India Shri Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan held in Jalandhar in 2016.
Born in a musical family in 1994, Somdatta Chatterjee has been primarily trained under the guidance of her father Subhasish Chatterjee, uncle Snehasish Chatterjee (one of the senior disciples of Jayanta Bose) and grandmother Arati Chatterjee (disciple of the exponent of Bishnupur gharana Gopeshwar Bandopadhyay). She has also studied with renowned artiste and veteran guru of Agra gharana, Subhra Guha. Chatterjee stood first in the Thumri-Dadra and Bhajan section of the Talent Search Contest at the Dover Lane Music Conference in 2014. She has been awarded the National Scholarship in Khayal from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Chatterjee has also successfully participated at various competitions across the country, like Murari Smriti Sangeet Sammilani, Sangeet Milon Classical Voice of India, among others. In 2017, she was the Citi-NCPA Scholarship Winner for Young Musician. Chatterjee, who is a B-High artiste of All India Radio, Kolkata, has performed at various organisations in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands with her husband, sarod player Abhisek Lahiri
Movies Under the Stars
Venue: Little Theatre
Date: 22nd July 2022
Time: 6:30 pm
An NCPA & Film Heritage Foundation Presentation
The Cameraman is a 1928 American silent comedy widely considered to be Buster Keaton’s last great masterpiece. Coming into prominence at the same time as Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, Keaton was a giant of American comedy. His daring comic stunts, which he performed himself, without camera trickery, quickly became the stuff of legend in film history.
In The Cameraman, Keaton plays a bumbling photographer turned newsreel cameraman doing his best to beat his rival and impress his lady love as well as his new boss despite his obvious inexperience. His first attempt at using the movie camera yields almost experimental results with the footage moving backwards and forwards with eerily superimposed images. Intricate set pieces and manic gags, shot on the streets of New York City and in the studio, make for a masterclass in comedy with unforgettable scenes in a cramped changing room, a gangland shootout in Chinatown and even the introduction of a monkey sidekick. Slant Magazine’s review described the film as “one of Keaton’s most self-reflective films and an ode to the unexpected and elusive lightning-in-a-bottle nature of filmmaking.”
Lucia Di Lammermoor
Venue: Godrej Dance Theatre
Date: 23rd July 2022
Time: 4:00pm
Fees
Member Price: Rs.450/-
Non Member Price: Rs.500/-
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) composed about 75 operas plus orchestral and chamber music in a career abbreviated by mental illness and premature death. Most of his works disappeared from the public eye after his death but critical and popular opinion of the rest of his huge opus has grown considerably over the past 50 years. Donizetti’s compelling romantic drama Lucia di Lammermoor is an example of the bel canto school of 19th-century Italian opera. Based on Scottish novelist Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor, the opera traces rival families, thwarted love and unhealthy obsessions in a powerful tale of an innocent woman manipulated by the men in her life.
NCPA Legends
Venue: Godrej Dance Theatre
Date: 23rd July 2022
Time: 6:30pm
Fees
Member Price: Rs.900, 750, 600 & 375/- (Plus GST)
Non Member Price: Rs.1,200, 1,000, 800 & 500/- (Plus GST)
Weaving together the tracks of Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, Holly Petrie takes us on a journey through popular music history telling a story of the evolution of R&B, funk and soul.
Always seeking to challenge herself and bring a new dimension to some of the industry greats, Petrie has put together some of the most vocally challenging and well-known tracks from these two multi-genre legends. Through them, she hopes to illustrate to the audience how widespread these two artistes’ influence has been in the music industry.
Despite seemingly disparate careers, Wonder and Khan have a surprising number of links, performing, writing on or paying tribute to many of each other’s tracks over the years. This performance includes two great examples of this collaboration, with Petrie and her band taking on Khan’s ultimate funk song ‘Tell Me Something Good’ which was written by Wonder, and her 1984 cover of Prince’s ‘I Feel for You’, during which Wonder joined in to play the harmonica. We will also see Wonder’s homage to his influences in his 1971 cover of ‘We Can Work It Out’ by The Beatles, which earned him his 5th Grammy nomination. Again, Khan then chose to cover and release this track a decade later, creating yet another thread between her and Wonder
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