Maligaspe with Arpeggio bring ”The performing costume”
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Nilan Maligaspé and members of the Arpeggio Creative Dance Academy (ACDA) will be featured in “The performing costume” on November 8, 2012 at the Punchi Theater Borella at 7. 30 pm.
This will be on the second day of the Colombo Dance Forum’s “Archive Fever” organised by the Goethe Institute Colombo conducted from November 7 to 9.
Through traditional and contemporary dance as well as multimedia projections the piece “The
performing costume” directed by Asoka de Zoysa will showcased how female stereotypes have been re-invented over centuries for the entertainment of the Sinhala audience.
The evening will bring melodies that are found in traditional theatre like “Sokari”, “Kolam”, “Nadagam” and “Nurti”.
The rituals “Sokari” and “Kolam” were the source of entertainment in villages in the 17th to 19th centuries. The costume and mask have been more than accessories creating the stereotype women from lower social strata known as ‘Sokari’, ‘Nonchi’ and ‘Lenchina’. The piece “Performing Costume” will show how the female emerging from these stereotype promiscuous women to the constructed “Arya Sinhala women” embodying high moral values created as the role model for the new nation state. Since then, the figure “Ähalepola Kumarihamy” became the favourite character in ‘Nadagam’ as a puppet play and ‘Nurti’ on the proscenium stage .
Through the single dancer Nilan Maligaspé and multimedia projections “The performing costume” shall provoke the audience to re-think how stereotypes have been re-invented over centuries for the entertainment of the Sri Lankan. From the archive material the relevant texts have been selected and will be sung to the melodies closest to the “original” using instruments that reflect each genre: ‘Sokari’, ‘Kolam’, ‘Nadagam’ and ‘Nurti’.
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