BE CAREFUL
BE CAREFUL
Conceived and performed by Mallika Taneja
Caution is central to a woman’s experience of life in India. It is prescribed, imbibed and practiced with rigour, so that women can be ‘safe’.
Thoda Dhyaan Se (Be Careful) is a satirical piece that challenges this notion of safety. Rooted in a widespread anger against the everyday violence against women, the performance confronts the unfortunate conflation between the manner in which women dress and the atrocities committed against them. Stripping down a culture hiding behind its ignorant, prudish mores, Mallika Taneja exposes the contradictions at the heart of India’s stunted social progress.
Be Careful resonates with women and men all over. Although rooted in India, the multilayered issues that the piece addresses has found in many other contexts: United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy, Australia, Japan.
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New Delhi, Inde
2019 / 2020 SEASON
21st September 2019
Contemporanea Festival, Prato (IT)
24th Sept to 5th Oct 2019
Les Tanneurs, Brussels (BE)
9th & 10th October 2019
Sirenos Festival, Vilnius (LT)
27th November 2019
Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
29th November 2019
NEXT Festival, Harelbeke (BE)
2018 / 2019 SEASON
10th to 15th July 2018
26th & 27th October 2018
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens (GR)
30th & 31st May 2019
Wildwuchs Festival, Basel (CH)
2016 / 2017 SEASON
August 2016
Mladi Levi Festival, Ljubljana (SI)
October 2016
Colombo Dance Platform, Sri Lanka (LK)
February 2017
Studio Safdar, New Delhi (IN)
TPAM - Yokohama, Tokyo (JP)
March 2017
Sitara Studios, Mumbai (IN)
Women of the World Festival, Melbourne (AU)
May 2017
Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis (FR)
2015 / 2016 SEASON
August 2015
Zurich Theatre Spektakel (CH)
December 2015
Les Urbaines, Lausanne (CH)
January 2016
International Theatre Festival of Kerala (IN)
February 2016
Goethe Institute Bangalore (IN)
April 2016
Festival 100% La Villette, Paris (FR)
May 2016
Alchemy Festival, London (UK)
CREATION
December 2014
Jaipur Rang Mahotsav (IN)
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