Vayu Naidu Presence workshop in Exeter
Vayu Naidu will be offering one of our series of six Performing Presence workshops on 22 March.
Vayu is a performance storyteller ‘committed to the renaissance of storytelling as a performative art within contemporary culture’.
These images are from Vayu Naidu Company’s inaugural production South (2002), directed by Chris Banfield.
South is a visually stunning, cross-genre performance that brings together contemporary and South Indian (bharata natyam) dance performance.
Developed with jazz musician Orphy Robinson, South explores ‘the meaning of geographical direction,’ drawing on the experience of refugee communities in coastal locations in the South East of England, where Vayu is based, Cornwall, Chennai, South Africa, and Greece.
Richly cross-cultural and combining diverse contemporary and traditional practices, Vayu’s work explores and articulates the presence of the narrative storyteller, transposing RASA, ‘the essence of performance,’ toward the creation of performer presence.
In her workshop practice, Vayu works to focus RASA, taking ‘a journey through the nine principal human emotions that give an impulse to movement and then to story.’
Vayu’s research on performance storytelling was the basis of a prestigious Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Fellowship in the Creative Arts at the University of Kent, UK, from 2001-2004.
Vayu Naidu Company’s current performance is Nothing but the Salt, created by Vayu in collaboration with Judith Wier and directed by Chris Banfield.
The Company’s website is at http://www.vayunaiducompany.org.uk/
Images courtesy Vayu Naidu Company.