At the Still Point
Kolkata, West Bengal

At the Still Point

At the Still Point

Kolkata and Bengaluru-based organisation Artsforward curates and produces At the Still Point, a crowd-funded Indian contemporary dance platform, launched in 2017. The festival spotlights “artists whose work is edgy, dynamic and extraordinary in the way it contributes to current social and political discourse”. An “intervention into the artist-audience relationship, it seeks to make the community a stakeholder in the nurturing of dancers and their practice”.

Past editions of the festival have been themed around acts such as Mandeep Raikhy’s Queen Size in 2017, Body Sense inspired by Diya Naidu’s Rorschach Touch and and Avantika Bahl’s Say, What? in 2018, Strange Times inspired by Diya Naidu’s Strange Intimacies and Satakshi Nandy’s Strange Fruit in 2019, Amorphous by Ronita Mookerji and documentarian Priyanshi Vasani and Atho Hidimba Katha by the Samuho Collective in 2020 and Detritus in 2022. Conceptualised by Artsforward director Paramita Saha and choreographed by Prashant More and Surjit Nongmeikapam, with music by composer Karshni Nair and featuring dancers Amitabh Srivastava, Madhyama Halder, Pintu Das, Sangram Mukhopadhyay, Srestha Das Choudhury and Ujjayee Banerjee, Detritus bore the tagline ‘We are what we throw away’. The performance used the body to “comment on waste, remnants of refuse, and our collective impact on the environment”. It was staged at art gallery Experimenter’s Hindustan Road premises.

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Detritus, the fifth Act of At the Still Point, will be presented at the Experimenter gallery as part of their A Site for Encounters for Drawn From Practice series. The notes for, dialogues, preparation and construction of the entire piece will be “laid threadbare” for the audience at the venue, which means they can be privy to the whole process of the making of the performance. The piece will remind them of how the continuous and non-regenerative devastation of our natural resources, the endlessly perpetuating problem of waste and our general apathy towards the conservation of resources has tipped us over the edge of disaster.

How to Get There

How to Reach Kolkata
1. By Air: The Kolkata international airport, better known as the Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, is located at Dumdum. It connects Kolkata with all the major cities of the country as well as the world.

2. By Rail: The Howrah and Sealdah railway stations are the two major railheads situated in the city. Both these stations are well connected to all the important cities of the country.

3. By Road: The West Bengal state buses and various private buses travel to and from different parts of the country at a reasonable cost. Some places near Kolkata are Sunderbans (112 km), Puri (495 km), Konark (571 km) and Darjeeling (624 km).
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Facilities

  • Eco-friendly
  • Family-friendly
  • Non-smoking

Accessibility

  • Unisex toilets
  • Wheelchair access

Items & Accessories to Carry

1. It rains in Kolkata from June to September so take along an umbrella and rainwear.

2. A sturdy water bottle, if the festival has refillable water stations.

3. COVID packs: Hand sanitiser, extra masks and a copy of your vaccination certificate are things you should keep handy.

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About Artsforward

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Paramita Saha and Subhrojyoti Sen founded Kolkata and Bengaluru-based “ideation agency” Artsforward in 2010….

Contact Details
Phone No 9830090527
Address BD 77
Salt Lake City
Kolkata 700064
West Bengal

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