Zuleikha Chaudhari
Zuleikha Chaudhari is a theatre director and lighting designer. Her work is an investigation of the structure and codes of performance. It explores and develops a series of questions to do with the interruption of the narrative structure, how images are constructed and experienced: the relationship of the text and performer, the dynamic between performer and space, how narratives are created and understood, and finally, the role of the spectator in the performative experience.
Her practice has developed over the past years into working with light structures/installations as explorations of space. She is interested in the nature of experience. Her installations engage with the question of how we experience and how the experience of experiencing can be created and communicated. Her installations are as much about an external landscapes as they are about internal geographies. They are as much about real spaces as they are about imagined/unreal ones.
Productions include:
SEEN AT SECUNDRABAGH
In Collaboration with the Raqs Media Collective
Co-Produced by:
Weiner Festwochen, Vienna 2012
KunstenFestivaldesArts, Brussels 2011
Festival D’Automne, Paris 2011
SOME STAGE DIRECTIONS FOR HENRIK IBSEN’S JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN
Based on Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman and texts by the Raqs Media Collective
Commissioned for the DELHI IBSEN FESTIVAL, 2009.
12th Theatre Utsav, National School of Drama, January 2011
ON SEEING
Based on Haruki Murakami’s ON SEEING THE 100% PERFECT GIRL ONE BEAUTIFUL APRIL MORNING
Site-specific installation/performance
Khoj Studios, Khoj Live Performance Festival 2008, New Delhi
Khoj Studios, August, 2008
The Park New Festival, Chennai, 2008
11th Theatre Utsav, National School of Drama Theatre Festival, January, 2009
National Theatre Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, March, 2009
Essl Museum, Vienna 2010
Roland Schimmelphennig’s ARABIAN NIGHT
Supported by Max Mueller Bhavan in association with Khoj International Artists Association
Site-specific installation/performance.
Khoj Studios, New Delhi. 2006
Theatre Utsav, 9th National Theatre Festival, National School of Drama, New Delhi 2007
Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Seoul, 2007
SIDDHARTHA
Based on the book by Hermann Hesse
Supported by Max Mueller Bhavan, Goethe Institut, 2005
Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, 2005
Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, 2005
Bangalore Habba, Bangalore, 2005
Theatre Utsav, 8th National Theatre Festival, National School of Drama, New Delhi, 2006
THE MAHABHARATA PROJECT
Based on the Mahabharata and Shivaji Sawant’s Mrityunjaya
For the Prague Quadrennial 2003
The Other Festival, Chennai, 2003
Open Air Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 2003
6th National Theatre Festival, National School of Drama, New Delhi, 2004
Gwancheon Festival, Korea, 2004
Rafi Peer Theatre Festival, Lahore, Pakistan, 2004
The Bonn Biennale, Germany 2006
She is the Recipient of the Sangeet Natak Academy (National Award) YUVA PURUSKAR, 2007, the Charles Wallace India Trust Award, 2001/2002, the Rotary Club Youth Excellence Award for Theatre, 1999.
