Sivarajah Natarajan
PARTICIPATING ARTIST
Sivarajah Natarajan
Sivarajah Natarajan a compelling visual artists of the human
form where he explored numerous genres of dances including odissi,
bharatanatyam, gotipua (boy-dancers of Odisha), Balinese and Javanese court
dances, contemporary modern dances and the traditional Malaysian theatre forms
of makyong, menora and main petri. As a visual artist, Sivarajah interpreted
the tension between the ecstasy and energy of movement couched within the
divine madness of the dancer’s spirit in his emotional outbursts. In his
capacity as lighting designer in some of the world’s major theatres, Sivarajah
paints eloquently with his lights. He is no longer dealing with the human form
caught in the ecstasy of dance – a subject that has been his forte but now in
the realm of a much more complex subject of expressing his compassion of the
need for a common ground of the two seemingly divergent and disastrous
destinies – of human and fate of animals. At the same time, he communicates his
message with the flat two-dimensional pop art – an approach that has been the
hallmark of his last few series.