Nomads of Rajasthan
Biographie
Alain Weber, artistic director
Gazi Khan Barna, artistic advisor
Christophe Olivier, ligths
Eric Bodard, sound
Created in 2006 at la Cité de la Musique - Paris (FR)
Poets, travelling performers and gypsy musicians from the north of India
Introducing the bards, dancers, musicians and acrobats from traditional India, this show is a magical voyage of discovery of the Romany‘s ancestral roots.
A wealth of families of artists stemming from the last nomadic castes of Rajasthan are still bearers of the ancestral arts which sparkled like the jewels of the ancient palaces but which also met with the harshness of desert rocks.
With the Pabuji pad of the Bhopas Nayaks from the Bhat caste (in the Barmer region), Narayanan – travelling performer from the town of Chinakalwal (Andhra Pradesh), the Kanjars (in the Kota region), Suwa Devi and Jogis Nats (in the Jodhpur region), the chakri dance (in the Jaisalmer region), the dehru dance by theNayiks (in the Sekhawati region).
REFERENCES
Cité de la Musique - Paris (FR), Cankarjev Dom - Ljubljana (SI), L'Arsenal - Metz (FR), Casa Da Musica - Porto (PT)