BLACKBIRD13
"Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird."
WALLACE STEVENS | 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
BLACKBIRD13 is a devised performance piece that uses ideas from linguistic philosophy to examine the notion of the 'unsayable' through an investigation of the rules and limits of language, set against a parallel movement-based exploration of the music of the armenian mystic george gurdjieff.
texts LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN. additional texts JOHN BANVILLE | LEWIS CARROLL | PAUL CELAN | JAMES JOYCE | AKHILA KHANNA | JOE MAGEE | NORMAN MALCOLM | G.E.MOORE | HERB MORRISON | ELEANOR ROSCH | WALLACE STEVENS | GEORG TRAKL | TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD | ALAN WHITE | ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI.
music G.I.GURDJIEFF & THOMAS DE HARTMANN. additional music J.S.BACH | NICK DRAKE.
credits
cast
Teena Antia
Imogen Butler-Cole
Catherine Chakravarty
Gilles Chuyen
Mandar Gokhale
Faezeh Jalali
Gaurav Jha
Siddharth Kumar
Srimoyee Mitra
Vikranth Pawar
Shanaya Rafaat
Ayesha Raza
Gaurav Saini
Sameer Sheikh
choreography
Gilles Chuyen
bird imagery
Siddharth Kumar
rainscape
Darren Ng
sound
Gautam Dhanu
lights
Pushan Kripalani
Arghya Lahiri
production
Vivek Rao
Anshoo Kapoor
produced by
Nadir Khan
directed by
Rehaan Engineer
