Mud and rain on stage

"odyssey Complex" promises to be a striking display of an unfamiliar genre.

Goethe-Institut in Dhaka has organised an evening of contemporary dance featuring Felix Mathias Ott -- a prominent choreographer, stage designer, video artist and author -- who has worked all over Europe with some of the most noted contemporary performance artists of the continent. The performance, to be held at 7:30pm at the Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka on February 7, is free and open for all.
The presentation, titled “Odyssey Complex”, is an experiment in exploration of Greek poet Homer's epic “Odyssey”. The work navigates through a narrative that has over the years entered people's imaginations through their own experiences and reading. The possibility for a multifarious, open-ended quality of the myth has laid the foundation for the work. The dialogue of artistic performance and other media creates surreal spaces between reality and fiction.
Contemporary Western choreography is not something that is staged often in Dhaka, and the use of rain machines and mud on stage, along with innovative set and light designing are sure to make for a treat for the aficionados of the art form.