About the performance

Flower Power is an installation piece with sound, animatronics and performance, featuring five large-scale sculptured floats, each taking the form of an exotic flower. The flowers, each tended to by their own gardener, are playful, mischievous and interactive. Drawing on the British love affair with flora and fauna, each flower symbolises diversity and has been chosen for its particular shape and historical connections.

Key Personnel

Ajay Chhabra - Creator
Charlie Camm - Designer & Maker

Production Information

Running time at full length: Flexible

Suitable for all ages

Use of light text

Use of recorded music

Does not require a clear understanding of English

Touring Information

Suitable for small or large scale show

Appropriate for outdoor in an urban or rural setting

Number of people on tour: 7

Number of peformers on stage: 5

Touring availability: Summer 2012 & 2013

Outreach and Educational Work

This project provides the opportunity for planting workshops with the local community. Please contact Producer to discuss in more detail.

Company History

Nutkhut was founded in 2003 by its Co-Artistic Directors Ajay Chhabra & Simmy Gupta. The company has been a Regularly Funded Organisation since 2008. Previous Arts Council funding has allowed the company to develop from being the UK’s first Asian stilt-walkers to being awarded a Cultural Olympiad Inspire Mark for its large-scale dance extravaganza Bollywood Steps. Nutkhut was the first company to present a dance piece in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace for HM The Queen.

Recent Productions / Tours

Bollywood Steps - originally co-commissioned by Greenwich & Docklands International Festival and the Mayor of London. Bollywood Steps is a unique British Bollywood outdoor dance spectacel, created and directed by Simmy Gupta, Co-Artistic Director of Nukthut. Recent highlights include a showing at Birmingham Town Hall to celebrate its 175th birthday. The show was awarded an Olympic Inspire Mark.

Movieplex - created by Nutkhut's Co-Artistic Director Ajay Chhabra - is a film, performance and installation for outdoor locations bringing to life the story of Shanta Rao Dutt and his filmmaking dynasty. It has recently played at the National Theatre's Watch This Space Festival. Nutkhut make some playful mischief with Movieplex and the Shanta Rao Dutt story, leaving the audience to question whether the story is really true or not. Its central concern is to play with fiction making (the Dutt story and oeuvre) within a fiction-making-construct (the world of film-making).

Reviews

'Simmy Gupta with her cool, stylish interpretations of film song'
Robin Denselow - The Guardian

'Ajay Chhabra provides entertaining foolery as an accident-prone goof'
Jeremy Kingston - The Times
‘Nutkhut's Bollywood Steps, a sumptuous piece of dance theatre that both plays homage and spoofs the Bollywood film. Even the steps of the Great Hall turned pink with pleasure and despite England's defeat in the football, everyone was smiling.’ - The Guardian on Bollywood Steps