Eigenzeit - Transcending Gender and Self in Odissi Dance

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Transcending Gender and Self in Odissi Dance
Lecture Demonstration

Bijayini Satpathy Lecture and Dance

Curator Kamalini Mukherji has invited Bijayini Satpathy, a very special guest, to Duisburg for the opening of the "Musik von Jetzt - Eigenzeit" festival. Dancing, researching and teaching, the artist has been involved with the classical Indian dance form Odissi since her childhood - and indeed, it would be hard to find anyone more suitable to illuminate the background of this millennia-old art, which was only rediscovered in the 20th century, as knowledgeably as Bijayini Satpathy. In Duisburg, her first stop will be the Lehmbruck Museum, where she will give a lecture demonstration to provide insights into the practice and theory of Odissi. Bijayini Satpathy will be paying particular attention to the fluid gender roles that are so typical of a dance form in which female parts are often taken on by men and male parts by women. One thing is already certain: anyone who is already looking forward to Bijayini Satpathy's festival performance on May 2 will be even more excited about the evening in the Gebläsehalle in the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord after the event in the Lehmbruck Museum.

The Lehmbruck Museum opens half an hour before the concert begins.