Bangladesh worships ‘Macbeth’ at Kiram Arts Festival in Indonesia

The “Kiram Arts Festival” is going to be held in the country’s Kalimantan province on November 8 organized by the Indonesian government. Dancer, director and artistic director of Turangami Pooja Sengupta has been invited there from Bangladesh.

Turangami’s new production “Macbeth” will be staged at the festival with a solo performance by Pooja Sengupta.

Turangami’s production is a thematic performance art on the relevance and form of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the contemporary times of the artist’s thinking. The concept, design, choreography and direction of which was given by Pooja Sengupta.

Photo by Pooja Sengupta/Collage

Pooja left on Monday (November 6) to attend the festival. The visit is sponsored by the Indonesian government.

Apart from the 5-minute Macbeth performance, Pooja Sengupta will also conduct a workshop on her own production techniques, which will be attended by international artists from various fields.

Apart from Bangladesh, mainstream artists from Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, Italy, Ghana, Mexico, India, Taiwan, Netherlands, Morocco, United Kingdom, Cambodia, Germany, Thailand, New Zealand, South Korea, China and host Indonesia are participating in the festival.