Ma-rgam excerpts

Ma-rgam - premiere
Festival Nava Gati, Teater Slàva
2 October 2021

Dance: Pauline Reibell
Frame drum: Maria Bovin de Labbé
Light design: Angela X
Curator: Ulrika Larsen

Video:Yang

Full lenght: 50 min.

Ma-rgam is the search for the silence underlying all movements in life. A movement appears and disappears; a sound, a gesture, a thought, a form.

Margam means path in Sanskrit. In Indian classical Bharata Natyam dance tradition it is the repertoire accompanied with live music presented in front of an audience. It is very refined, rehearsed and sacred, honoring the form taught from teacher to adept as well as it carries forth the lineage of the teacher. Ma-rgam, in this contemporary context, is a symbolic rendition of what this path means to us, here and now, in its rawness, vulnerability, in the joy of playing, expressing, connecting and sharing. It is a journey from form to the formless and also a search for MA, that the Japanese refer to as the new space in-between.

In the end Pauline and Maria open up the stage for a participatory experiment where performers and spectators/audience meet as they taste the interconnectedness in a final invitation to merge with the silence.

Видео Ma-rgam excerpts канала Pauline Reibell