Masoom brings another blog in the Health series on how to strengthen your knee. 1.Stretch your IT Band: •Stand with your left foot crossed over your right. Lean your upper body as far as you can to the left without bending your knees. Repeat with your right foot crossed over your left, leaning your upper…
Continue reading...By Vishwa Kiran Wild flower is based on the concept of “Lookism”. Lookism is actually a term used to describe the phenomenon of how, societally, physically attractive people meet with positive reinforcements. For me, this translates into how eventually physical appearance becomes so vital that it negates everything else, this obsession is one of the…
Continue reading...by Mayuri Upadhya Choreographers are people of such imagination and vision. Each creator’s drive, concerns vary from each other & from time to time. Inspired by personal, creative, intuitive, technical input each composition takes shape. I for one aspire to reach a realm where I can create and watch my own ‘unforgettable extraordinary theatrical experience’….
Continue reading...Tips from Guru Smt. Sandhya Kiran This is particularly for classical dancers- Don’t go overboard on your costumes. Less is more – always. Mix and match colours and designs those are not too jarring to the eye. Use a combination of larger and smaller pieces of jewellery to create a complete picture. When you find…
Continue reading...Madhuri Updahya on her choreographic piece “Manmatha” As a choreographer my thoughts have always leaned towards combining aesthetics of painting and dance almost like giving picture frames animation. My line of research has always been on 2 dimensionality exploring thematic possibilities linearly and also in lines placed at a choreographic space. Personal stories of dancers…
Continue reading...by Preethi Bharadwaj Jaipur – The Pink City, a city which caught our senses for the unthinkable amount of shopping we could do!! It all started with short, strenuous and instilling practice sessions to learn Mayuri’s Choreography “Kaali”. On night of May 8, at 23:00 we get a text message from Geetha asking us to report…
Continue reading...Berlin based Annekaterin Trautmann conducted a workshop for Nritarutya’s core dance team. The work shop aimed at bringing holistic somatic awareness thereby helping the dancers gain more freedom of movement. Body alignment, weight distribution and activating deep-seated muscles were emphasized upon. And after all the heavy duty work, the dancers emerged more relaxed, more conscious…
Continue reading...Organized with the vision of helping promising talents to grow as an artiste and a human being, Nritarutya dance trust brings forth the 2013 edition of its annual dance festival “Adhyaya – Dance Chapters”. And it is not just another dance festival. Adhyaya offers stage to budding artistes for presenting innovative, quirky, modern and yet…
Continue reading...Sally Owen, Assistant director of Scottish Dance Theatre along with company dancers Eve Ganneau and Matthew Robinson conducted a dance workshop for Nritarutya on October 26, 2012. Sally began with a discussion regarding the choreography process of the three dance pieces – “Drift”, “Dog” and “Luxuria” that they had performed the day before. This was…
Continue reading...Rising is a new evening of work performed by Aakash Odedra, exploring different processes and aesthetics to create a new personal language. Aakash hails from Leicester, U.K and has trained in Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Indo- Jazz and Contemporary. Over the years he has given many stage performances with different companies and artistes including Pagrav Dance…
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