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Shoot the Cameraman: Strange Goings-On at Natarani

| Updated: February 4, 2025 16:59

Ahmedabad audiences were treated to a beguiling performance at Natrani on Sunday, in the form of Shoot the Cameraman by Luxembourg dance company AWA. Combining the cinematic with the theatrical, the show tells a story of power and abuse, seen live as well as through the lens of two cameras as they follow the players on stage.

The idea that the camera can produce a different reality is familiar to everyone these days. Editing, photoshopping, changing hues to “improve” the picture is something we do all the time. In this production, AWA’s Baptiste Hilbert and Tanisha Addicott go a step further: they show us how the camera lens can make things look different as they are happening.

As the dancers move towards a powerful denouement, the camera captures them from various angles and this is projected on a screen behind and above them. We see how the camera can make the violent look tender and the obscene look sacred, depending on its vantage point.        

Watching the screen as well as the stage performance can be headache-inducing, so once you get the idea of what the play is trying to do, it is easier to focus on one or the other. I for one chose to focus on the stage, with occasional glances at the screen. The two dancers on stage, Georges Maikal and Tanisha Addicott put on a powerful performance, which was enhanced by the excellent music and lighting effects.

Georges is big and muscular, whereas Tanisha is petite and their moves are at once brutal and erotic. They dance together and alone and at one point, they shed their clothes and dance exposed and vulnerable in their undergarments. At times, Tanisha moves like a broken puppet, while Goerges is a tortured, angry soul. At one point he comes to the front of the stage, as if to explain himself to the audience but not a sound escapes his lips.

Shoot the Cameraman premiered in Europe in 2022 to critical acclaim and this is the first time it is touring India. AWA says it is “a narrative that retraces the radicalisation and seizure of power of an individual within a couple and the society that surrounds it.”         

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