Festival Eigenzeit - Kalapa

In the organizer's words:

Kalāpa

Bijayini Satpathy Dance
Kamalini Mukherji singing

More than 2,000 years have passed since the beginnings of Odissi, the characteristic dance form of the East Indian state of Odisha, which, with its graceful poses and narrative gestures, is one of the eight classical dance styles of the Indian subcontinent. Bijayini Satpathy brings Odissi to Duisburg. Once a leading member of the legendary Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and former resident artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she will open the "Musik von Jetzt - Eigenzeit" festival with an evening she has choreographed herself: with a celebration of India's great poetic literature, a dance-musical exploration of the work of four poets from the 8th to 19th centuries. The middle section of the program will also feature this year's festival curator Kamalini Mukherji performing songs by Rabindranath Tagore. Powerful themes are interwoven in this unique performance: the divine, half-male, half-female duality of Ardhanarishvara; the choice of the familiar over the powerful; the rediscovery of inner strength and beauty by a conflicted warrior princess; the poignant episode of Sita's abduction from the epic "Ramayana".

Additional program:
Indian movie day
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Filmforum Duisburg
The program will be announced at a later date.
In cooperation with filmforum