Just Enough Madness
South Asia Now
Just Enough Madness is a bold new dance-theatre work that weaves Kuchipudi, poetic text, ritual, and live music to explore the silences around motherhood, miscarriage, and mental health. What happens when the...
Just Enough Madness is a bold new dance-theatre work that weaves Kuchipudi, poetic text, ritual, and live music to explore the silences around motherhood, miscarriage, and mental health.
What happens when the world calls it joy, but the body whispers otherwise? When the womb becomes a house, and the mind a battleground?
Through shifting presence and absence, memory and loss, the piece navigates the thresholds of becoming and unbecoming an ‘almost’ mother, where joy meets rupture and identity flickers between who she was and who she is expected to be.
This is a story of what we carry, what we lose, and what we dare to reclaim. This is Just Enough Madness.
Praise for Payal Ramchandani:
‘’The conflicting experiences of gendered, cultural and psychological trauma are powerfully evoked in this narrative, which often pulls its character in contradictory societal, spiritual and theatrical directions’’ SARAH- MACE DENNI
“Ramchandani’s hold on the subject is reflected in the ease with which she translates this extremely complex and layered psychological state into dance, clearly the culmination of immense thought, dedication and hard work” RESOLUTION REVIEWER
Credits
Concept, Choreography and Performance: Payal Ramchandani
Percussion: Prathap Ramachandra
Flute: Vijay Venkat
Vocal: Ramya Tangirala Music
Composition & Recorded Vocal: Bhagyalakshmi Guruvayur
Music Production: Ramu Raj, Naveen Anandh
Sectional Compositions Contributed by: Prathap Ramachandra, Vijay Venkat and Ramya Tangirala
Rehearsal Director & Dramaturg: Debbie Fionn Barr Initial Music
Composition: Supriya Nagarajan, Duncan Chapman, Hari Bhaskar, Naomi Paraera, Praveen Prathapan, Prathap Ramachandra Lighting Designer & Technical Manager: Matthew Carnazza
Sound Engineer: Camilo Tirado
Set & Costume Designer: Sandhya Raman
Poetry: Payal Ramchandani
Voice-over: Dr. Agam Bhatnagar, Payal Ramchandani
Folk Song Resource: Shilpa Mudbi & Madhav Ajjampur
Videography: Fly Films
Photography: Luke Waddington
Producers: Moving Art Management
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