Guru Sri Kiran Subramanyam offers pearls of wisdom for budding dancers. 1) Keep your practice and performance separate and running parallel to each other. Let one not suffer due to excessive attention on the other. 2) Watch performances. See as many as possible, and not necessarily only your type of dancing. 50% of learning comes…
Continue reading...Preethi Bharadwaj speaks of her experience while working on the collaboration between The Raghu Dixit Project and Nritarutya for Bacardi NH7 Weekeender. Ever heard or seen of foreigners singing along ‘Lokada Kaalaji’ of Shishunaala Shareef? Well, that’s the power of Karnataka’s Rockstar Raghupathi Dixit well known as Raghu Dixit by all his fans….He definitely is…
Continue reading...U.K based, internationally acclaimed, Ballet and Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Mavin Khoo offers few words of advice on the art of choreography. 1. With choreography its important to understand it first from a compositional aspects; imagine a building…you have to lay a foundation first before you start decorating…so, being objective and building the…
Continue reading...Principal dancer, Vishwa Kiran talks about his experience working with choreographer Madhuri Upadhya on the piece “Trishanku” for the company’s production “Prayog 4” “Want and Need”, “Angry and Reckless”, “Failure and perseverance”. Trishanku has been a very personal and emotional process for me and Madhuri. It has moved beyond a space of a mere dance…
Continue reading...“YES DANCE MATTERS” (by Smt Lalitha Srinivasan on World Dance Day) It has always mattered at the personal level, when I was 4 to now and will always matter at all levels, in all respects till the end of my day. It has been a panacea for life’s trials and tribulation. It has been a…
Continue reading...As we gear up for Prayog 4, noted danseuse Anita Ratnam shares some tips for a good performance. 1. Your body will never be perfect. Accept it and work with it. Learn to illuminate your strong points – torso, limbs, extensions, twists – whatever you feel works for you and diminishes your weaknesses. For example,…
Continue reading...Madhuri Upadhya describes the journey to choreographing her new work “Trishanku”. They say you have to choreograph something close to life more importantly close to your own life!!!! As choreographers we can weave fantasy around the story, romanticize, be brutally literal, abstract or whimsical. I chose to look at characters from our mythology to tell…
Continue reading...Latha Srinivasan speaks of her experience working on Sathya BG’s choreography “Chakra” for our upcoming production “Prayog”. Read on… Sathya is a choreographer who likes to keep it dynamic always. His choreography is a beautiful amalgamation of movements created by him and the dancers. He starts off the process of creating a pattern which looks…
Continue reading...AUDITION Components and essentials…. By- Madhuri Upadhya Dance Auditions are a systematic process through which professionals select suitable artists who are required to give a sample performance. If you compare it to other industries it’s more or less like a job interview, only harder because your body cannot lie. In the field of dance, there…
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