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Sangita Shresthová

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Sangita Shresthová:
Bharata Natyam vs. contemporary approach to the Indian dance

- Combined seminars for advanced beginers and semi advance dancers in Indian technique
- Technique and choreography based in South Indian classical dance Bharata Natyam

In case you are professional dance we do not insist you have Indian dance experiences but knowledge of body movement and flexibility to study new technique.

Date: 1.-7.9.
Mo - Fr 18 - 20 hod
Sa - Su 10 - 12, 13 - 15 hod

Place: NABOSO, Školská 12, Praha 1, www.adla.cz

Prices in CZK:
Mo-Su: 2.000,-
Mo-Fr: 1.800,-
Sa-Su: 1.500,-
1 week day: 500,-
1 weekend day: 900,-

Application: Jana Tomášková, Mobil: +420-602 255 961, jana@iam.cz, www.iam.cz

Payment:
In advance till August 15th at the latest on: 305342001/2400 Ebanka
Advance cash payment upon personal arrangement.
Price at the day of seminar plus 10%.

Workshop content:

Bharata Natyam (Technika/Choreografie)

This workshop will work through steps, body positions, rhythms, hand gestures, eye movements, and emotional content of Bharat Natyam, a South Indian classical dance. Historically practiced in the temples of Tamil Nadu, Bharat Natyam is sculpturesque, spiritual, precise and rhythmically complex. The students will work towards learning a composition from the Bharat Natyam classical repertoire. This workshop also will provide students with technique that will help them master contemporary Indian dance.


Contemporary Indian Dance (Soucasny Indicky Tanec)

The last decades have brought exciting innovations to the world of Indian dance as dancers trained in Indian classical dance enrich and combine their training with contemporary approaches to movement. Sometimes spiritual, sometimes Bollywood-like, contemporary Indian dance is an eclectic, catchy but deeply rooted dance form. In this workshop we experience contemporary approaches to Indian dance. The workshop will begin with a warm up based in dance, yoga and martial art. We will then draw on Indian classical, folk, Bollywood and contemporary movement to create short dance sequences. The class will culminate with lively choreographies that allow the students to experience the excitement of contemporary Indian dance.

Sangita Shresthova

Sangita has performed classical and new choreography in Sri Lanka, India, Belgium, Germany, Nepal, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and United States. She belonged to the Boston-based Lasandhi Dance Theater, danced with Aparna Sindhoor's Navarasa Dance Theater (Boston), and performed with the Dance Theater of Nepal (NYC). She was a guest choreographer for Constanza Macras/DorkyPark production "Big in Bombay". As a member of the Post Natyam Collective, she was invited to perform at the prestigious Other Festival in Chennai, India.

Sangita studied Bharata Natyam under Smt. Malathi Srinivasan (Chennai), as well as Charya Nritya (Nepalese Dance), Kalaripayat (South Indian martial art) and contemporary dance techniques alongside her professional training at LSE and MIT where she received the Council for the Arts Wiesner award for her work in dance and new media. Her film Dancing Kathmandu, was a curtain raiser at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival and continues to screen at film festivals worldwide. Focusing on the transnational dimensions of Hindi film, she is a co-organizer of the annual Prague Bollywood Festival as she works towards a PhD and book on the globalization of Bollywood Dance at UCLA.

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