Artistic director Mayuri Upadhya’s article about the business of dance was published in “The Asian Age” . Read the article here. I’m a professional dancer. A few years ago the answer to “what do you do?” assured me of amused reactions. From raised eye-brows, stupid stares to utter fascination. From being asked “Ok…you dance, but what is it that you do for a living?” to “Dancer,…
Continue reading...Principal dancer and Youth Wing Director Vishwakiran Nambi talks about the thought process behind his work “Wildflower”. Read on to know more. “Whatever our indignities and resolve, we can neither avoid lookism nor eliminate it from society.” – Gordon L. Patzer, Ph.D A Wildflower,although salient, is not intentionally seeded or planted. If we…
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Continue reading...Company dancer Latha Srinivasa talks about her experience working on the dance based on the evolution of the technology giant GE. Read on to know more… Performing for GE was distinct from other corporate performances. We had to depict the journey of GE from their first move as a company till their current stature which…
Continue reading...One of India’s leading make up artiste Ralph Daniels talks about the differences between the make up for ramp and stage. Excerpts… Makeup for the ramp and for a dance performance has a few things in common, but there is quite a lot of difference too. Makeup for the ramp…
Continue reading...Company dancer Abhishek Singhania reminisces his experience of learning Mars, one of the most acclaimed choroegraphies from Nritarutya. A year after I joined the company, I started learning “Mars”. The piece choreographed by Sathya BG is the one of the most popular and technically demanding work. This very fact made me conscious as it…
Continue reading...Our Malleswaram center tutor Shreeya Kishanpuria shares the content being taught at classes. Read on to know more… It is supposed to be a day off. Yet we are there, week after week, to move and to dance. And every class brings with it new smiling faces amongst the old ones that surges in…
Continue reading...Associate director Geetha Ballal throws some light on legalities involved in a dance production. Read on… Legalities – the word is enough to put everything in perspective and see what we have been doing… Working for a dance company for the last 14 years, I can only say that this word holds more and more…
Continue reading...Associate director and choreographer Madhuri Upadhya talks about dance and painting. Read on… While my academic education has been in Fine Arts my extensive practice has been in dance (performing arts) for the past 20 years. It would be interesting to look at the principles of the two. Around 1st century BC the Sadanga or Six…
Continue reading...Youth Wing dancer Sangeeta Iyer reminisces rehearsing and performing Nakula Somanna’s latest work “Periscope”. Excerpts… I still remember that class when Nakula Somanna, our instructor and choreographer, announced to us that we would be presenting the material we had created in a stage production. Our excitement knew no bounds! We, the Youth Wing dancers, had…
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