Pothaba - The Art of Serenity, A Soothing Balm for The Soul

July 2nd 2024
Video
Region
Northeast India
Researcher
Source
Director of Photography: Tushar Nongthombam, Sound overseer and instrumentalist: Johnson Ningombam
Formats
Conscious movement
Performance
Site-specific
Disciplines
Spirituality
Psychoacoustics
Anthropology
Themes
Healing
Education
More-than-humans

Pothaba ꯄꯣꯊꯥꯕ : The Art of serenity, a soothing balm for the soul, a Manipuri (Northeast India) dialect that embodies the essence of peace, a harmonious convergence of calm and tranquility. 

This performance art piece transcends linguistic boundaries, resonating with the primordial essence of ambient sounds and the ballads. The performer attentively embodies the natural ambiance, serving the somatic flow as the expression of Serenity, and weaving a tapestry of synergistic empathy and kinesthetic understanding to harmonize with other non-verbal beings. It's an ode to the non-verbal Ballade, a revolutionary movement art that expresses what mere verbal cannot, awakening our innate capacity for kinesics, bridging the gap between being and becoming.  

In this realm, the confines of communication dissipate, and the performer's body becomes the conduit for the symphony of the universe through movement. This piece is a testament to the power of the non-verbal ballad, a celebration of the human experience that draws directly from the soul.

The title of this piece emerges from the post-performance text (meaning the performer's Work and the Staging itself, the ways of staging, exposing, rendering, extemporizing and so forth). The performer creates his or her own performance text according to the principles of performance-based writing. 

Pothaba ꯄꯣꯊꯥꯕ succinctly unveils before the beautiful soul of this world.