dancing on the street

Wow! This post has been a while in the making. So a belated sum-up a super fun last-of-the-series-of-six:
Yana Lewis was out of town, but was sweet as ever to have her troupe be part of this act. The dancers showed up just as Mesha and I finished mixing tubs of colours and Nirali, Anand, and the rest of the gang had the treated thermacol pasted down onto the pavement. We had the screen and laptop on a ladder up as well. The stage was set! The crowd was completely curious too...
The drums began to roll, people began sending us SMSs with their favorite colours, this was projected on our standingonfish blog, the dancers jumped into the tub containing the latest fav colour and pretty soon the white canvas was covered with the most sykotic foot patterns in all the colours of the rainbow - just as promised. In fact million time more supherb!! The dancers were great! And the crowd were totally enthu. I loved the way people would come up to me and ask if they could participate in the act...that only we want, i'd happily say, we'd love for all of you to do that!

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Thanks for coming and making this one extra perfect:
Yana Lewis Dance Company
Saurabh - photos and video
Nirali Lal
Aishwarya
Krishna
Anand Bora
Tomek
Dawood
Pearlene
My family: Revathi Satyu, Vimala Rangachar and mom

dancing-on-the-street

Boys and girls,

Many happy returns of the day! Sunday coming is the last of our current series of 6 StreetActs with StandingOnFish and our plan for it is super special!

We are going to have the pavement turned into a 70 foot long canvas, and have many talented dancer feet that will paint beautiful patterns in all the colours of a rainbow...and you get to tell the world your fav colours.

So mark out 4 and 4:30pm on Sunday (tomorrow) the 17th of dec and show up at at the Brigade Road and Residency Road intersection (outside Mota Arcade) to see and be part of this community performance art.

If by some unfortunate chance you are not able to come out there, just send out an SMS to 9986336929 with b(space)soft(space) your fav colour. Add your name or remain anonymous E.g. b soft blue - arcna. And you can still be part of the rainbow :)

so here's to dancing the rainbow soon,
arc & mesha

PS: go see standiingonfish.spaces.live.com to see all the SMS's that people have sent us so far...

Clowning-on-the-street

After our visit to Vistaar where the SAP (Society for Artists and Performers) troupe were taking workshops for some of the Srishti students, we were pretty excited with our plans. The SAP artistes - Adil, Bidya, Fengel, Beatrice and Vishnu were going to use Clowning to get people to send their thoughts and reactions via SMS to the StandingOnFish blog!

Our setup involved a laptop connected to the internet, a large 24" monitor, a whiteboard and a large mobile mock-up. The idea was to have people send in SMSs to our SOF blog where it would be posted instantly. This would be projected on the monitor via the laptop and Mesha would write it on the whiteboard.

Why? So that the people could see how the clowns would react to their instantly published SMS messages.

It worked magically. Once the crowd got into the act, and figured the trick to get some crazy reactions from the clowns, SMS were flying around. You can have a look at all the SMS posts that people sent to us at www.standingonfish.spaces.live.com You can also send us posts by following the instructions under How? in the right column >>

And the cool part is that this Sunday we added got a nice little feature with the SMSBlogging system that sends out the previous 2 SMS posts if you post up one…that way you get to read other people’s thoughts when you send out yours :)


The SAP guys were Terrific! Amazing! Super! Thanks a million times!:
Adil Hussain
Beatrice Ordex
Fingal Pollock
Jogiraj Chakrabrti
Vidyavati Phukan

Thanks to some of SOF friends who showed up:
Meera Naidu
Nirali Lal
Sandeep
Dawood
Anand Bora
Indrani
Sumit
Krishna Mehra
Prasad – Video
Udai - Photos

A very special thanks to my family for coming out and being part of the fun: Mom, Dad, Arathi, Sridhar, Abhay and Antara

act-on-the-street...join us while we clown around :)

well well well tomorrow is going to be kick-ass! we have a bunch of surprises in store. Hint? well...let's see...something to do with clowns, something to do with writing...something very fun! so be part of the sykosis...
4pm. brig rd - residency rd corner (outside mota arcade)

words-on-the-street

   

Words are flowing out like endless rain...the Fiona Apple version of Across the Universe plays in my mind when i think about our last Act on Brigade road last Sunday. The mood was so gentle and the balance between energy and chaos was just perfect!

I'll admit come Friday and Mesh and I were as skittish as two cats about our 'plan'. It was a little more complicated than the others. We wanted people to give us their minds. We wanted to be able to read their thoughts. We wanted everyone to know what was on each others minds. We wanted to experiment with calligraphy...we wanted it all!

Sunday afternoon found both of us badly head-ached and slightly edgy Screeched in at 4pm. Pulled out the goodies from my car. Up went the banners. Paints were mixed. ‘Give us words’ was our little notice to the people. 15 meters of cloth was spread out onto the pavement and we got right into it. People began asking questions soon enough, and out came our SOF bookmarks. Saurabh and Udai got out their cameras and passers-by got the idea really quick and the words began to flow…

All 30 meters of cloth were painted. And we could have gone on well past 5:30pm, but the cops did have a point…where were our permission papers for that?

So one more superb Sunday and thanks to all our friends who showed up!
Sean
Jatin
Sonali
Purab
Deeksha
Krishna
Sandeep
Sapna
Vire - video
Tomek - photos
Saurabh – photos
Udai – poles & photos

words-on-the-street this sunday...be there

Sunday is around the corner and StandingOnFishTeam Act has something plotted and planned. We are going to be writing on the street.
How? What?
Well...it involves many meters of cloth, lots of calligraphy and some story-making. Come off and be part of the fun!
Where? When?
Same place - brigade road & residency road intersection.Sunday. 4pm sharp