Untitled, originally uploaded by deshan10. Subha Wijesiriwardena is a dancer who trained with the Chitrasena Kalathanaya, the Laban Dance Centre and with Menik Neydorff.
Khavan Tennekoon, October 2011, originally uploaded by deshan10. Khavan Tennekoon, October 2011. Another stab at the anti-portraits project; this time using a nylon screen and existing light.
Mr. Vidanarachchige Ariyadasa, of Circus Nilvala, originally uploaded by deshan10. Gored by a bear in the troupe when he was a teenager, Mr. Ariyadasa of Circus Nilvala laments the inability of securing leopards and sloth bear for the circus today. Awareness of animal rights in the country means they can no longer raise, train and show exotic animals.
Mika Tennekoon, Illustrator, originally uploaded by deshan10. Mika and I recently saw a whole slew of portraits of some very serious-looking children’s book illustrators and thought we’d take the piss in this test shoot. Official portrait due soon. A selection of MIka’s pictures is here: mikaten.blogspot.com/
Rapid-Prototyping, originally uploaded by deshan10. Rapid-Prototyping: Subha Wijesiriwardena and Nadim Akram practice a dance sequence in the play. Nadim joined the production last night and the dance was introduced shortly after rehearsal started. The actors must work tirelessly to build in new routines, test them and discard them if they don’t work.
Untitled, originally uploaded by deshan10. Sellotape, directed by Ruwanthie de Chickera. A final year drama school production by the University of Colombo. An engagingly creepy and weirdly abstract bit of theatre. What a shame there’s no repeat performances.
