Interventions in Light: Tarang Sangini, a two-part collaboration 2025
UAC Window Space Gallery
Shiv Nadar University
Greater Noida, India
“Interventions in Light” is my third installation at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India presented over a two day period during February 2025. This site-referential piece, located in the UAC Window Space Gallery showcased “Tarang Sangini”, a two-part collaboration with original choreography by dancers, Garima Mamtani, Ananya Chaurasia and Kishore Kumar Palaniswami.
BIO: Garima Mamtani is a second year Physics major at SNU trained in Kanchipuram style of Bharatnatyam for 14 years. Ananya Chaurasia is a fourth year IR major, trained in Odissi for 18 years. Both have a Visharad in their respective forms, which is equivalent to a Bachelors degree. Kishore Kumar Palaniswami. is a fourth year Physics major, and new to the art of Bharatnatyam. He has finished his Arangetram for the Saraswati Veena and has been a vocalist for 4 years.
Thank you to Dr Aadya Kaktikar, Head of the Department of Art, Media and Performce at SNU as well as Professors Iram Ghufran, Atul Bhalla and other department colleagues, including the wonderful Kamal Arora, for the invitation to create and engage at the university. I am extremely grateful for their kindness, courtesy and advice during my month-long sojourn there. In addition, a special thanks to SNU MFA students, Niemisha Sharma and Swarnali Ganguly, who helped me install all three installations during my time at SNU.
Tarang Sangini II
You speak through steps, I speak through sound,
Somehow, we meet on common ground.
Not in grace, not in stance,
But in the rhythm of our dance.
Your rhythm flows, my notes respond,
A teasing fight, a lifelong bond.
You storm, I listen, I sing, you move,
A perfect misfit, locked in groove
The sun carves paths upon the floor,
Where our footprints meet and blur once more.
You spin in gold, I step in grey,
Yet still, our echoes drift and stay.
Soon the lights will dim, the curtains will fall,
The echoes of college will fade from the hall.
But in every rant, in every cheer,
I’ll know you’re always near.
-Ananya Chaurasia
Part I
Part II
