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Imprinting the Dark Period

Chhobhir Hut Performance Festival ,Dhaka ,Bangaladesh
2014

This performance I conceived keeping in my first hand
experience in Dhaka city as I was entering city through the
roads from airport to friends place I saw a very big cluster
of tricycle Puller taking the road by storm and it fully
packed with traffic and I could only could see the struggle
and pain in their body which they take constantly take as
to survive in everyday life and myself as a third person
who is looking at whole thing as silent observer and
gulping the fact it way of life in Dhaka to work hard and

survive. This got two things in my thought process of
work, one is position of Victim (the cycle rickshaw puller )
and other one me silent observer. I wanted to bring both
this element in my performance work although basic idea
was already worked.

In this performance my main concern is to bring into
notice various social issues which acts like boundaries for
action for justice. We are constantly consuming this
pressure/tension of this society to fight with emotional
and mental level and we keep on absorbing so called

these negativities in the form of Dark, which accumulates
in our system like carbon and if we don’t burn out and
convert this into energy it will totally take us to depth of
its darkness. My performance will be an attempt to take
out, ejecting all the negativities of our society in the form
of body actions.