Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/08/2017
3:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Indian Museum
Categories
Alliance française du Bengale, Indian Museum and
Laboratoire d’excellence Arts-H2H present
Rodin and the Dance of Shiva,
a lecture-seminar by Dr. Katia Légeret-Manochhaya
© Cover of the book published by Niyogi Books
On Tuesday 8th August at the Indian Museum
At 03:15 pm, screening of Camille Claudel,
a movie by Bruno Nuytten
At 06:30 pm, Rodin and the Dance of Shiva,
a lecture-seminar by Dr. Katia Légeret-Manochhaya
About Camille Claudel, a movie by Bruno Nuytten
Year: 1988
Duration: 2h 55min
With Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow…
To watch the trailer, click here.
About Rodin and the Dance of Shiva, a lecture-seminar by Dr. Katia Légeret-Manochhaya
In 1913, photos of The Shiva Nataraja bronze from the Chennai Museum inspired Auguste Rodin’s text “The Dance of Shiva”. Written at the end of his life, this vision of The Cosmic Dancer, “Lord of actor-dancers”, revealed the underlying links between Rodin’s dance sculptures (1910), Indian sculpture and Dance-Theater as Bharatanatyam style. Through his text, Rodin invites us not only to a new reading of his work but also opens the door to the new connections that he suggests between sculpture, poetry, dance, theatre, music, photography and architecture.
Katia Légeret-Manochhaya is Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory in the Department of Theatre at Paris 8 University, France and Director of the Laboratory of researches on Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts. Her main field of research comprises the twentieth-century European playwrights, stage directors and choreographers inspired by Asian performing arts, specifically from India. She is the author of many articles and books about Indian dances and theatre and she is a professional actor-dancer in Bharatanatyam style.
More here: http://niyogibooksindia.com/portfolio-items/katia-legeret-manochhaya/
