After touring Europe and India, German-Bangladeshi dance production “Made in Bangladesh” will be finally staged in the capital, at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday.
Invited by Goethe-Institut Bangladesh in association with Shadhona, there will be two shows of the production – at 2pm and at 7pm.
Directed by renowned German theatre director Helena Waldmann, “Made in Bangladesh” explores the notorious sweat shops of the RMG industry and the supposedly legitimate artistic “sweat shop” of a dance studio, and comes to the conclusion that they have more in common than the cultural establishment would like to admit.
Waldmann and her Kolkata-based co-choreographer Vikram Iyengar use the complicated staccato dynamics of Kathak as a relentless choreographic reflection of piecework sewing. The choreography with 12 dancers from Bangladesh is thereby interspersed with multimedia extension in the form of video clips and sound collages.
After the premiere of “Made in Bangladesh” in the German city of Ludwigshafen in November last year and the Europe tour that followed, the ensemble most recently toured India with the support of Goethe-Institut, participating in two renowned dance festivals as well.
