Student’s Speak

Sunil Warrier, our student at the Whitefield center, talks about his experience learning and dancing with us. Excerpts… “Nritarutya follows the traditional way of teaching. The initial training focuses on building up the body to dance which includes stamina building, developing control, balancing, body conditioning, flexibility, alignment aspects. The training period depends from person to…

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Delhi calling!

Dancer Pia Bunglowala reminisces the experience of the recent performance at Delhi. Dance has always been an integral part of me. And one of my most favorite thing of being a professional dancer is the fact that it takes you to interesting places and you get to meet a lot of interesting people. My association…

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In the business of dancing…

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,…

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Wildflower – The Thought Process

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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At Nritarutya’s Classes

Few pics from the classes at our Koramangala center. Have a look!            

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Science meets Dance!

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…

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Makeup – Ramp v/s Stage

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…

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Learning Mars

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…

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Sunday mornings at Malleswaram

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…

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Legalities in Dance

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…

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