project description n idea of set design

discussed by the never ending news and incidents of the sex offences with women and specialy the inhuman crime of gange rapes in indai, i set out to do a research on a dance project to look for the reasons behind this never ending crime.
my idea was to look for reasons and observe the behaviours of men in these male dominent societies, and the reasons were very simple to understnad.and some how we all know why does a rape happens. largly its men to be blamed for these crimes.but wht are the reasons behind their becoming sex criminals. 

so instead of developing a social theaseas on the problem I shoot out to search for movements which could suggest and show these reasons which led to the so called sexually surpressed state of the mind and body.
A big part of this is also my own lived experience, as I am born and grown up in rural india in those cultural setings which are very conservative and talking of sexual need is a tabu, where relegious principals and morals are valued higher then any living being. where the idea of physcological health is still unheard of.
Choosing the movement based approach to this project also have two strong reasosns- one that it was the movement( dance) which give me the way out of the closed world i was part.puting me in touch with my self where i could reflect..so it made sense for me to think in the response to the possiblity of the effect a movemnt has on minds.
second reason for choosing the approach of the movemnt is that there is
a lot of discussion in delhi and banglore and many indian cities about the sex crimens against women..it seems to be that the intelectuals the writers are able to expresse their views and the educated citizens of india are able to understnad the problem but they are failing to reach to the core of the problem which lies with people who are like how i was..before i got aware.. so for me it made sense to not talk to the people but show them the feeling of a teenager who is hiding his sexuality..who is been judged constnatly ..who is experiencing violence in almost all fronts of the life ..to whom
the women in bollywood films and magzines is just a object of desire and lust..who don't know himself and want to become like the projected image
of the commercials, who can't filter information, who is beeing contantly manipulated..who is slowly geting desprate to find an outlet to his provoked sexual desires. who is unsure of his existance, who is peeing through these wholes in the bathroom walls to have abit of flesh of womens body.
he who don't understnad that is about to become the victum of his uncultivated mind.
so I wish to comunicate through the movement which are put in context which rises these situtations and conditions in a simple and abstract way ..so that audience can think and have a possiblity to come to a place of reflection ..
I am not trying to find a solution to this huge problem..but my aim is to work stronly to bring people of all kind mostly men and also women to come to a place where they can relate to the problem in their way and reach to a place of acceptance ..reflection
any change can't happen before each individual of the society can realise and reflect. 

for the research I investigated and read- The male domination- the most problamatic idea in every culture, why all the GODS are male, jesus, Mohamed, Shiva, Budha, and so on..in mnay relegions around the wolrd. the book i read which help me in geting a further information beyond my knowledge of the subject. please see attached document on the degration of women from the book "seven secreets of the Godess"
on the take of the relegion There are many facts which does play a strong role on the psysc of menhood.
But in perticular there is one figure which is very fascinating in indian relegion is Hanuman, who is the symbol of ultimate devotion and who has taken an oath not to have a sexual life, he who posses a lot of powers because of the idea of not mating.
he is also the god who is being prayered most by the wrestlers and teenagers in northern india to surpressed their sexual needs,,which i find very strange in one way he is the ultimate devote becuase he has denied the courtship of women, he becomes the ideal to be followed as in india there is a strong culture to follow the ideals more then seeing who they are.
this aspect is still under worked by any artist or performer in india, so I will work on this aspect of relegious charecter.
as I have known and as we seen the life of indian men is effected strongly by social status, finacial status, relegious mindset, 

every culture sets standereds for its Heros and their Villans, in that way its easy for them to differentiate in good and bad. its very easy to say bad guys do bad dids and look them as criminals, but we don't want to look behind what made them criminals ..the circumstances..the tromas of violence..and abuse..and how does these are very spacific to all the differnet societies. Indian males sexual surpression is a set of problems which are intertwine with the process of mans dominance over women, development of social structure which doesn't permit freedom of expression, relegious teablous
, task of servival, discrimination, which some time are in opposition to the process of natural evolution.
the process-
during the research we did to public events and few open rehearsals in delhi, the first structure we presented in a rural village to the village audience was the one which delt with the degration of women from godess to the meer property of the owner MAN. we also xplored the pyramid structure of the hirachy which is so very present in indian social base, man gods and God, the ultimate Ego or menifestation of the men himself.

in this structure we discoverd who women was related to earth and cultivation of earth land gave rise to the idea of owning, the materialistc preception of the world, and what underlined was the anxiety of men. here we used live music and some recorded music with the text from the book "seven secreets of the godess"
second part was a work for three weeks in a studio in new delhi with seven dancers including myself,where we worked on finding the movements
which delt with the learning by repetation, the masculin men, their sexual provcation, hidden lust, guilt, implosive frustration, verbal absue, dealing with the animal self..the dominance of the sexual animal and thus the gang rape. cime bord becoming the face of the sexual crime, and the acceptance and guilt of being the man who they are.
this was the thoughts behind the movements and the structure of the 27 mins ,
here I have used music from electronic composer Ben Frost,
this structure sugest the inner world of these sexual men with out ever showing the women, their activities theier fears , their tromas and their act guided by lust and frustration.
somehow i see that both structures are capable to be effective waht is missing is a bit more dipper approach. a sense of a place where people can see themselvs in the situation in their private moments when they were stuck in those places when did they fought how did they felt ..and then seeing how horable it is to be a rapist, how easily u can end up on the other side of the humanity..so we have a chance to ralise that we have just replaced the other part compleetly her choices and our idea of love has compleetly beeng lost.
a lot of this problems also have to do with the ideas around masculinity of men and what is consider masculin in different cultures in different times, even the effect of the masculin ideas can be seen in the paintings of God, fashion, street behaviour, 

The Idea set n props for the performance -
I have thought of the blackboard and white chalk ( which we have reference from our school days )
It could be 7 black boards , we can use them separate or make wall by putting them together on top of each other ..to create a sort of background ( which is good sometimes when we are outdoor it gives us a idea of what is front and back in space,
they can also be used as ground where different dancers can stand on these black pieces and have solo's
also with chalk we can write ..refrences to writing of life values we learned which teaches a child how good man be and how a good women should be .
also we can draw abstract forms