Artistic director Mayuri Upadhya’s article about giving perspectives to Indian myths through dance was published in “The Asian Age”. Read here. We live in a time when the most sensational stories make it to the headlines of the newspaper. From crime, politics to celebrity gossip it’s out there for us to bite into, like a juicy apple, and we do just that without questioning….
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…
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...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...Associate Director and Choreographer, Madhuri Upadhya talks about the making one of her works – “Manmatha”. Read on… Manmatha started with a specific direction and purpose of exploring the shringara rasa and romanticizing love. I believe that love is the thread that connects all of us essentially as energies, existing in time in space. One still is helpless and is…
Continue reading...Associate Director and Choreographer Sathya BG talks about his latest work “Chakra” for Prayog 4. Read on… It started of with creating movement patterns with the senior dancers of Nritarutya and it was a bit of challenge for me as I had to imagine the movements on the dancers of Chakra. The journey of the…
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