Among the different genres of Hindustani vocal music, khayal stands out as a prominent form for melodic, rhythmic and textual exploration. Hundreds and thousands of khayal compositions created over the past few centuries and composed by contemporary composers, act as seed-ideas for vocalists to...
Bandish antaakshari, a performance-based game, portrays compositions (bandish) from the Hindustani art music tradition through antaakshari, an engaging recreational pastime that revolves round popular music from films. It seeks to make traditional repertoire accessible to uninitiated audiences...
Folk songs sung in different languages across India reflect the cultural diversity that has always existed in the country. These songs relate to various aspects of human existence, responding to the joys and challenges of everyday life. Whether songs marking the rites of passage or work-related...
Serendipity Soundscapes is a unique initiative by Serendipity Arts Festival. Our music curators are invited to bring together the unique sounds of...
A favourite of the audiences! Given the success of the last editions of River Raga project, this edition of the Festival will see the musical ferries being revisited—with more showtimes and different artists, these cruises will happen throughout the Festival. 16 December,...
A unique collaboration between Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur and Rajasthani musicians and singers.
An evening of jazz with Louiz Banks, the godfather of Indian jazz!
A performance by renowned musician, record-producer, songwriter, composer and DJ Karsh Kale. Photo Credit: Suraj Warrier
ARTIST STATEMENT Since my childhood I was exposed to all genres of music. It is only later on that I was...
Concerts in the park by a variety of musicians and bands. Genres range from jazz to fusion, pop to retro and blues to funk. 15 December, 2019 | Still Waters 16 December, 2019 | Latin Monks 17 December, 2019 | Maria e Neil 18 December, 2019 | The Aviv...
In Indian classical dance—literature, music and dance are woven together into a beautiful tapestry of emotions. Bhava, or feeling, is an important component in dance. Even in the fifth century poems we find these emotive songs. The poems reveal endless emotion at every...
A series of two performances and a panel discussion curated on the theme of ‘Identity’ by Leela Samson.
What humanity faces today is the result of our day-to-day karma. For the most part, it is us, humans, who are the reason for natural disasters. How can art play a role in reversing this trend, in taking us to a greater awareness of our actions and their impact on the world? Three artists and...
Art is a reflection of human emotions. Human emotions are based on the lifestyle, society, profession, natural atmosphere and the fertility of the particular land. Tamil culture speaks of five different landscapes that divide the profession and lifestyle of people, according to the...
A comprehensive presentation of three forms of Chhau: Seraikella, Mayurbhanj and Purulia. Each style is distinct, drawing from the rich traditions and history of their respective regions of origin and practice, deeply rooted in their varied contexts yet representative of formal properties of the...
A performance of select scenes from the epic Ramayana, narrating the spurning of Suparnakha by Rama and Laxmana, which instigated the abduction of Sita by Ravana. Performend in the style of...
Please Note: This performance can accommodate a limited audience of upto 14 viewers. Audience will be admitted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please ensure you arrive in advance to secure your attendance at the performance. On a Different Note is an immersive theatrical experience...
Photo-Copy is a tale about a blemished family of 4 living individuals and the hope of the existence of a ‘late’ member. An irreparable loss of the head of the family: a husband and father leave the rest in a state of uncertainty. The eldest sibling, Satyaprakash is hit by...
Ashrafi and Bilal are orphaned siblings stranded and defined by the troubles in Kashmir. 18-year-old Bilal is the pride of the region, part of a teenage football team set for great heights and pushed to the limits by the violence around them. Haunted by hope, his sister is caught in the past,...
[1] "Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic - lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed - as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on...
A selection of stories that begin on a random day, are first-hand retellings of day-to-day life in Nizamuddin Basti. The spectator is invited to enter the performer's world—through the everydayness of the narrative. The stories emphasise how gender and sexuality plays out in the...
Table Radica: Habib Table Radica is a food table, an archival table, a listener’s table. Audiences are invited to gather around the table, become visitors, friends, tasters and witnesses to a radical life led on stage and beyond. If we form ourselves by the books we feed on, the...
‘I do not write about the farmer and the mill worker because I do not know their lives well enough. I empathise more with the travails of the middle and lower middle classes.’ – Ismat Chugtai Selections from Ismat Chugtai's autobiography form the opening segment of our...
A woman is getting ready to welcome a young man, who has rented a room in her house—her son’s room. She feels uncomfortable that a stranger will be staying in this room and she is uncertain about what to say to him when he arrives. The man has an unusual name. This leads her to...
Hanv Gara Asa, which means 'I am home' in Konkani, explores the idea of 'being home'. Told through objects and materials, this play wishes to take the viewer on a journey of...
Early experiences in the theatre allow young children an indelible experience that is deeply sensorial and perhaps even contributes to the beginning of their aesthetic journeys. Toddlers' theatre is an endeavour to this end. Toddlers experience time, space and action in a more...
Home is a non-verbal sensorial show for infants. At first, there is nothing, and then a sound—a person with a huge bundle and the bundle holds a whole world; a world of many possibilities and stories, and when the whole bundle is unravelled—what fills up the once bare...
The central idea behind the two-hour play is the question—what does one love in someone? Do we love their mind, or their heart? Here, the heart is representative of the body and the tangible, while the head represents the intangible—wisdom, poetry. 'Hayavadana' was...
Shelter is a monumental participatory installation created by assembling cardboard modules of identical shape and size, by interlocking, without using tape or glue. Shelter is an interactive proposal for an audience that is in transit and is diverted from its primary purpose to participate in...
‘Boy with a Suitcase’ is Ranga Shankara’s flagship production—a unique Indo-German collaboration that brings together people of different nationalities to make a play that relates to all of us. A play written by Mike Kenny about migration and the idea of home, it was...
Please Note: This performance can accommodate a limited audience of upto 15 viewers. Audience will be admitted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please ensure you arrive in advance to secure your attendance at the performance. Once upon a time... is a dance statement on the power of...
As an artiste, Mayuri Upadhya has witnessed and participated in festivals where dance is defined only by its form and skill. As a curator, her desire is to break that pattern and go beyond. The concept of recreating a street dance battle is a small way in which dance can be accessed and...
Maher community belongs to the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, and have played a major role in the 1600 years history of the region. Traditionally a warrior community that turned settled agriculturists, Maher in the past danced to celebrate holi, to celebrate victory over cattle raiders or...
Conceived at a farmhouse in the small town of Kamshet, The Kamshet Project experiments with transitioning realities. Nine highly skilled dancers were put under house arrest and cut off from all social and familial ties! It was an experiment to go beyond the physical text of dance and explore the...
Two select dance productions, ‘Maanini’ and ‘Red Dress Wali Ladki’, curated by Mayuri Upadhya on the theme of ‘Reflections of Time’.
Bharatanatyam has seen tremendous growth in the past decades or so, from its original format as Sadirattam, and after it was rechristened as Bharatanatyam and now to its modern avatar—it is extremely interesting to see the growth and the transformation that this form, one of India’s...
Red Dress Waali Ladki, was born out of the Diya Naidu’s response to the brutal crimes against women in India. Through the research and introspection that went into making the work, she decided to talk about the layered, subtle experience of the woman, who is seemingly liberated but...
An evening of stand-up comedy featuring Sapan Verma, Prashasti Singh, Pavitra Shetty and Srijan Kaushik. Book Now
The participants registered must assemble at Panjim Inn, Fontainhas 15th to 20th December, 4:00pm and at 91Springboard on 21st and 22nd December, 4:00pm’ Registrations for a particular day close on the previous day at 5:00pm. Walk in participants are welcome, on a first come - first...
'Sound Interventions' is a curation of four projects by Sneha Khanwalkar: Bass Holograms; The Long and Short of It; StepPer; and Winds of Change.
Exploring the bare bones of bass frequencies, the torpor of oscillations, a relationship to silence unfolds within Bass Holograms and takes the audience to the very edge of sound, inside time, into the swirls of an ‘electronic raga’. Rhythm, mass, fabric—from noise-based...
The Long and Short of It is a durational sound and performance installation. In a sparse landscape of microphones and amplifiers, bodies find, occupy and are displaced from land. Each body must...
StepPer Live is an inter-disciplinary trans-rhythmic art form. StepPer has mesmerised people worldwide. He makes dance from music, and music from dance, this is achieved by dancing on his self-designed Reflective Data Tranz Danz Floor, by which music and dance create each other simultaneously. A...
"Beyond the boundries of mortal exsistence! Enraptured in Eternity!" A performance by India's first transgender Bharatanatyam dancer Dr. Narthaki Nataraj, depicts the story of those devotees who have gone beyond the norms of this world and have united with the...
Bhamakalapam/Navajanardana parijatham, is a story about Sri Krishna and Satyabhama. Satyabhama is a distinct prabandha nayika (key female protagonist) in Telugu literature. The role of Satyabhama as Krishna's consort counters the tradition of featuring Radha as the companion, which is...
Still Waters Still Waters is a Jazz, Funk, Latin Band led by ace drummer Lester Godhino, vocalist Daniella Rodrigues, with Jason Quadros on keyboard, and drummer Merwyn Mascarenhas.
Latin Monks Latin Monks Latin Monks is led by Elvis Lobo, a guitarist/composer based in Goa, and one of the most versatile guitar players in the country. He began playing in 1995 and has played with different international set ups at the biggest music festivals around the world (Big chill,...
The Aviv Projekt The Aviv Projekt is the vessel that carries forward the musical vision of singer/songwriter Aviv Pereira’s passion for music and live performance. Currently the band...
Join us for an evening of jazz music with Xavier Peres, who is among Goa's most accomplished jazz talent. A versatile pianist from Goa whos been around in the scene for more than 25 years, Xavier has performed within India and in the UK with many of Goa's greats including Chris Perry,...
Maria e Neil are a duo that performs Jazz music with influences from around the world, such as Bossa Nova, Retro Jazz and Fusion. Being experienced musicians in a wide variety of genres, this duo...
Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' (1970) responds to events unfolding in Italy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Generally, it looks at police corruption and suspicions regarding the government's collusion in this corruption. More specifically, it addresses the...
“Le visage humain n’a pas encore trouvé sa face et c’est au peintre à la lui donner…” – Antonin Artaud The performance “Transfiguration” is the story of the sculptor’s unfulfilled desire to imbue his creation with...
Lucifer’s Ensemble is a music performance project crossing physical theatre, interactive technologies and sound art, comprised by two performers and a composer. In their music performances, guest musicians/performers are invited to close the circle of conceptual pieces dedicated to the...
Installation on view 15-22 December, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Performance Schedule 15 December, 5:30 PM 16-17 December, 1:30 PM 18 -20 December, 5 PM Beneath the concrete skies lie rural villages where farming was the way of life. Over the years, rice fields have...
[1] "Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic - lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed - as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on...
[1] "Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic - lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed - as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on...
[1] "Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic - lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed - as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on...
A woman is getting ready to welcome a young man, who has rented a room in her house—her son’s room. She feels uncomfortable that a stranger will be staying in this room and she is uncertain about what to say to him when he arrives. The man has an unusual name. This leads her to...
Table Radica: Habib Table Radica is a food table, an archival table, a listener’s table. Audiences are invited to gather around the table, become visitors, friends, tasters and witnesses to a radical life led on stage and beyond. If we form ourselves by the books we feed on, the...
Photo-Copy is a tale about a blemished family of 4 living individuals and the hope of the existence of a ‘late’ member. An irreparable loss of the head of the family: a husband and father leave the rest in a state of uncertainty. The eldest sibling, Satyaprakash is hit by...
Photo-Copy is a tale about a blemished family of 4 living individuals and the hope of the existence of a ‘late’ member. An irreparable loss of the head of the family: a husband and father leave the rest in a state of uncertainty. The eldest sibling, Satyaprakash is hit by...
Photo-Copy is a tale about a blemished family of 4 living individuals and the hope of the existence of a ‘late’ member. An irreparable loss of the head of the family: a husband and father leave the rest in a state of uncertainty. The eldest sibling, Satyaprakash is hit by...
Hanv Gara Asa, which means 'I am home' in Konkani, explores the idea of 'being home'. Told through objects and materials, this play wishes to take the viewer on a journey of...
Hanv Gara Asa, which means 'I am home' in Konkani, explores the idea of 'being home'. Told through objects and materials, this play wishes to take the viewer on a journey of...
Hanv Gara Asa, which means 'I am home' in Konkani, explores the idea of 'being home'. Told through objects and materials, this play wishes to take the viewer on a journey of...
An evening of stand-up comedy featuring Sapan Verma, Prashasti Singh, Pavitra Shetty and Srijan Kaushik. Book Now
The popular series comes back to Serendipity Arts Festival with its signature mix of fusion music.
Earthstage was formed in 2000 by Elvis Lobo and Bosco D'Souza, with a mission to collaborate with musicians, creators and artists—and have had musicians from across the globe perform with them. Earthstage is based on the motto, 'The Earth is our Stage'.
The FishTank Xperience is a Blues Rock Funk Fusion rock 'n' roll jazz band from Goa comprising of Nevin D'Mello on guitar and vocals, Richard Carrasco on bass and Samuel Pinto on drums.
Smooth brings together seasoned musicians with a repertoire of over 250 songs which we play in English, Konkani, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili in a variety of styles too, classic rock, country, Love Ballads, Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Ballroom, Bollywood, Soca, Salsa, Reggae and Pop. The...
Please Note: This performance can accommodate a limited audience of upto 15 viewers. Audience will be admitted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please ensure you arrive in advance to secure your attendance at the performance. Once upon a time... is a dance statement on the power of...
Please Note: This performance can accommodate a limited audience of upto 15 viewers. Audience will be admitted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please ensure you arrive in advance to secure your attendance at the performance. Once upon a time... is a dance statement on the power of...
The Long and Short of It is a durational sound and performance installation. In a sparse landscape of microphones and amplifiers, bodies find, occupy and are displaced from land. Each body must...
Please Note: This performance can accommodate a limited audience of upto 14 viewers. Audience will be admitted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please ensure you arrive in advance to secure your attendance at the performance. On a Different Note is an immersive theatrical experience...
Please Note: This performance can accommodate a limited audience of upto 14 viewers. Audience will be admitted on a first-come first-serve basis. Please ensure you arrive in advance to secure your attendance at the performance. On a Different Note is an immersive theatrical experience...