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Filmed performances

Ma déesse SDF (1993)

Choreography

Andy De Groat

Director

Centre national de la danse

Collection

CN D – Centre national de la danse

Year of production

2022

Year of creation

1993

In 1993, Andy De Groat conceived for Kalpana the solo Ma déesse SDF, in the spirit of their collaboration on La Bayadère, with music by Conlon Nancarrow and the texts “Chansons” by Christopher Knowles read by Arby Ovanessian (recorded in Chiraz-Iran in 1975). Awarded the “Muse et qualité Award” by Andy in 1997, Kalpana also took part in La Folie d’Igitur in 2009.

Choreography

Andy De Groat

Director

Centre national de la danse

Collection

CN D – Centre national de la danse

Year of production

2022

Year of creation

1993

Video production

Centre national de la danse – Recorded at CND 1st June 2022 during the exhibition “Andy De Groat, inspirations et libertés”

Performance

Kalpana

Extract of programme

« The starting point: the structure and duration of a classical recital, narrowed down to its fifth.
A character – a witch perhaps.
In any case, someone without a fixed abode.
A ceremony.
She prepares to…
dance.
To “embody”.
No Indian music.
Other rhythms had to be found.
Other resonances.
Similar to our collaboration on “La Bayadère”.
An encounter with tradition.
To repeat, to contradict, to dance. »
Andy Degroat, September 1994

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