ART

Minakar--Spun Gold and Woven Enamel
(National Museum, Delhi; November 16-21)

The Textile Art Society, Delhi, presents Minakar (The Enameller), an exhibition of 14 contemporary, hand-woven textiles. The result of years of research by Rahul Jain, the items on show are made with a technical and artistic excellence that recreates the lost art of 17th-18th century Mughal textiles. The effect: a transition between cloth and metal, mostly in a floral vocabulary..

Art of Imperial
(Imperial Hotel, Delhi; November 20-22)

Perhaps forgotten, these 1,800 lithographs, acquatints, engravings -- by Thomas and William Daniell, Emily Eden, William Hodges, James Bailey Fraser, William Simpson and Captain Grindlay -- will be exhibited, before they disappear into hotel rooms and corridors, and the most precious to their previous abodes. An exceptional collection.

Women-Sunil Das
(Renaissance Gallery, Bangalore; November 15 to December 7)

From Calcutta-based painter Sunil Das, here is a series of women with mysterious, often tantalising, eyes. The 20 works -- all oil on canvas -- are portraits of women which convey, in various forms including the erotic, the pressures they are subject to in their lives.

THEATRE

Falling Angels
(Directed by Devissaro and Michael Merwitzer; Starring Sian Williams, Daksha Sheth, Calcutta, Mumbai, Pune; November 18-25)

British Council brings together two international dance-theatre companies, The Kosh of Britain and Aarti of India. The result is a production of Falling Angels, a modern myth about a boy who confronts the past and meets his destiny in a search for love and liberation. An unusual experiment in cultural fusion.

C'Est Pas Dommage
(Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Pondicherry; November 18 to December 8)

After 500 performances of this play across four continents, Les Cousins, a leading French theatre group, appears all set to conquer India. With their circus background, the performers combine acrobatic feats, juggling, music and poems in French and English to give their audiences 70 minutes of entertainment through delightful satire.

DANCE

Dance Works-Navtej Singh Johar
(Shri Ram Centre, Delhi; November 21)

In dance works, Bharatnatyam dancer Navtej Singh Johar attempts to "freely traverse the boundaries of the classical and the colloquial". The bonus is the music composed and sung by classical (and now pop) vocalist Shubha Mudgal. Definitely a show worth watching both for the experts and those who are not. 

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