Outset India supported Beautiful Thing 2, a contemporary dance piece by Padmini Chettur with a light installation by Zuleikha Chaudhari at GATI Ignite! Dance Festival.
Beautiful Thing 2 positioned the body almost as an architectural object in an empty space. Using time as powerful strategy in the very dramaturgy of presence. The performance prescribed nine 'lines' in space. The physicality of the body became abstracted over time, till the spaces it held and moved became more present. The performance remained constantly on the edge of 'performing' and not.
In moments playing with the body's potential to grow in space and at others dissolving it into space. Aiming to present a meticulous deconstruction of the mechanics of movement, the piece became a study that forces audiences to ask: "what is dance?"
Beautiful Thing 2 was commissioned for the Singapore arts festival, co-produced by Szene Salzburg and co-presented by Bo:m Korea in 2011.
