British Museum is going to orgasie conference on "Assam: textile transmission and the performance of dance" on July 8 - 9 2016 at Stevenson Lecture Theatr, London. This two-day conference will respond to the current exhibition in Room 91, Krishna in the garden of Assam: the cultural context of an Indian textile. It will consider Assamese textiles, trade and contact through the Himalayas from north-eastIndia to Tibet, and the performance traditions that connect the ancient Krishna-related textiles with modern Assamese culture. The conference will include an exhibition viewing and reception.
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Assam: textile transmission and the performance of dance
Friday 8 July & Saturday 9 July 2016 Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum
11.45 Trans-Himalayan textiles: Indian woven silks in Tibet Rosemary Crill, formerly V&A Museum
12.45 View of the exhibition Krishna in the garden of Assam: the cultural context of an Indian textile
13.30 Lunch
14.30 A brief discussion of the traditional woven silk textiles of medieval Assam: lampas, samite, double-weave and damask Steven Cohen, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford
15.30 Silk, a larger history Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam
15.30 Tea break
17:00 From Lhasa to London: looting during the 1904 Younghusband Expedition to Tibet Tim Myatt, independent schola
18:30 The dancing monks of Uttar Kamalabari monastery, Majuli Island, led by Dr Bhabananda Barbayan, in a public performance in the Great Court (ends around 20.00)
Saturday 9 July
10.00 Dancing the divine; performing the Nation: Krishnadance in ancient and contemporary Northeast India Debanjali Biswas and Georgie Pope, both King’s College London – India Institute and Department of Music
11.00 The icons and the accompanying texts woven on the Vrindavani Vastra textile groups and their historical and cultural significations in Assam Samiran Boruah, The Assam Research Society, and La Maison des Artistes, Paris
12.00 Coffee break
12.30 Staging the Vrindavani Vastra – Q&A session with Bhabananda Barbayan, the choreographer of the dance performance based on the Vrindavani Vastra textile Bhabananda Barbayan (choreographer from the Uttar Kamalabari monastery, Majuli Island) and Anwesa Mahanta and Arshiya Shethi, both post-doctoral independent researchers
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Threads through Assam – screening of a short film on the story of silk in Assam, directed by Leona Chaliha
15.45 Some further thoughts on the function of the Vrindavani Vastra and Conclusion Richard Blurton, British Museum
16.30 Dance workshop with monks from Majuli Island
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