Digital India is a digital installation that has as its central theme traditional Indian dance and the work of the Attakkalari Dance Company of Bangalore.
As part of the CRISOL – creative processes project, the videomaker Federico Torre, accompanied by Antonella Cirigliano (CROSS), followed the rehearsals and the production of 4 pieces by the historic Indian company that uses Bharatanatyam, Kalaripayattu and Kathakali as a study basis for the creation of highly suggestive contemporary works with a unique dreamlike visual potential. Mixing videos, lights, costumes and stage props, Attakkalari revisits its culture making it current.
This project consists of the creation of a video installation, a video art project that will also include interviews and the introduction of the Nagarika project, directed by Jayachandran Palazhy, which constitutes a digital archive of the history of the movement in India and its religious and ritual implications.
Digital India is a project by CROSS Project, Attakkalari Centre for Movements Arts, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa within the CRISOL- creative processes project.
In collaboration with NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano
photo: Federico Torre, detail
