SAKSHI JAIN
PROJECTS
/// PASTIME SWEETNESS
Pastime Sweetness takes place in a surrealistic world with a society of its own kind. They have their own way of communicating and expressing themselves, upholding a very strict, but unspoken, set of social norms.
Pastime Sweetness circles around three characters meeting at an unusual event. Shifting between conflict and support, love and hate, the characters get entangled in a web of power play, greed and obsession.
Pastime Sweetness is the result of the research project Bridge Between Stage and Audience funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz
Deutschland.
Choreography: Ingjerd Solheim
Dancers: Maria Paz Garcia, Marlen Nickel, Sakshi Jain.
///Moving Imaginative Bodies – Yolanda Morales and Team.
A SERIES OF INTERACTIVE OPEN DANCE REHEARSALS
Drawing inspiration by dances at borders, the desert as a landscape of cultural and biological diversity but also as an extraction and storage space. Focusing on the slowed down- Cumbia Columbiana and other dances styles that are growing in these areas. The team comprised of international dancers and choreographers and musicians, The
rehearsals and workshops were for everyone interested in movement, dancers and non- dancers. Along with a sign language interpreter in each session.
For one week each month from august to november, we worked on the topic of ‘Cumbia Columbiana’ from Monterray and we learned the style and put it on a contemporary context developed a particular form of movement as a group. At the end of each week, we invite people over and share our research and repertoire. It is a meeting space to discuss topics, move and Jam.
Choreography: Yolanda Morales
Dancers and Teaching: Ingjerd Solheim, Sujin Lee, Sakshi Jain
Teaser link : https://vimeo.com/733546802
/// The Roaring ≈ Das Getöse
A Musictheatre piece after Susan Griffin.
We wonder what our piece is about besides that we work with a text written by Susan Griffin in 1979. This piece is about a vision. A feminist vision of different bodies and different minds and different objects merging into each other and separating again and leaving traces.
The spaces we created become real for us; Passing cover into our vision, we feel as if we entered a free zone, and breathe a sigh of relief. It was an opera of 3 acts, Its about trying to
overcome the relations of hierarchy and separation. Trying to ease pain that has always been a result of separation.
Production: Paula Rudiger, Direction: Lisa Pottstock
Performers: Dong Zhou, Emelie Wolter, Kristin Kuldkepp, Marlen Nickel, Maria Paz Garcia, Sakshi Jain.
/// WHICH COLOUR DO YOU WANT?
There are spaces that we fill with colours. But what about the spaces that don’t exist because your eyes don’t see them? What colour are they?
My piece is about what the situations I face are to me, in my head. What shape and colour is the mood? What colours fill the spaces don’t meet your eyes?
Today, more humans than ever have a whole spectrum of colour to choose from and paint their lives with. Yet, so much of our life is uncertain. Out of our control.
What colours fill the spaces that don’t meet you eyes? Do you have a say?
Dancer and Choreography: Sakshi Jain
Mentored by: Raul Valdez
/// CHERRY RED QUINTET
Five individuals are getting ready for their annual gathering. They are dressed in their finest clothes and put on the only thing that is missing for the festivity to begin: Short, black wigs .
The piece takes place in a surrealistic world where the norms of a social event go beyond reality. How far would each individual go to stand out without losing their identity as a group?
Choreographers: Ingjerd Solheim and Angeliki Maridaki.
Dancers: Emelie Wolter, Girish Kumar Rachappa, Maria Paz Garcia, Marlen Nickel, Sakshi Jain
The work is presented in collaboration with LICHTHOF theatre, through the platform WE PRESEN #17.