Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 5: Natrang presented a world class performance of ‘The Black Pearl’, a live art performance by Nikhil Chopra. The experience of watching such a performance was unique and never before for the Jammu audience. Son of the soil, Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice ranges between live art, theatre, painting, photography, sculpture and installations.
Today’s performance ‘The Black Pearl’ was a fictional persona Nikhil Chopra has been working with since 2014. She has taken different guises wherever she has traveled. Each site has informed her/his mask. He is interested in how this title has been given in history to people for their exceptional talent while also referring to the colour of their skin (Pele and Joesephine Baker are the most widely known examples). In Kochi, Kerela La Perle Noire was a 16th Century European Dandy, in Havana La Perla Negra was dressed as a 1950s American woman in an elegant dress, with pearl strings and white stockings. Both these performances involved being imprisoned, making drawings and eventually escaping from my shackles and disappearing into the river and sea. In Paris, he was the monster of Maharaja of Patiala as he floated away in a melting iceberg in the middle of a stormy sea.
In Jammu, Chopra reacted to the heavy monsoons, we find ourselves in the middle of water played a significant role in this performance, not as river and sea, but as material.
Natrang director, Padmashree Balwant Thakur felicitated Nikhil Chopra on the occasion and also spoke about his performance style. Prominent among those who witnessed the performance included Rajinder Tikoo, Naveen Chopra, Deepak Kumar, Chander Parkash, Sonu Aggarwal, Rajiv Luthra. Hall management was looked after by Neeraj Kant, Mohd Yaseen, Rahul Singh and Shivam Singh. The show was coordinated by Sumeet Sharma. Gauri Thakur did the presentations.
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