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Navarasa Dancers Keep Audience Enthralled 

5/6/2015

 
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BY PREM SOURI KISHORE
LOS ANGELES,CA-Judy Mitoma, Curator and Producer, World Festival of Sacred Music has been enthralling audiences  with her series of  music and dance events by inviting artistes to “Dance the World with Music for the Soul” for the past  six months at the Aratani Theater here. The accomplished  Navarasa Dance...

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Group- an exciting and adventurous collective under the compelling direction of Aparna Sindhoor, S M Raju and Anil Natyaveda  presented   a stunning and visceral  program of work- ‘A Story and A Song’, on May 2.
This was provocative storytelling lushly layered with martial arts, explosive movement, swirling aerial feats, vocal chants, Bharata Natyam ,narrative and deep rooted traditions. The evening’s work inspired by a story by A K Ramanujam  and Richard Erdoes and Alfonso  Ortiz honored the natural environment and  was told through dynamic interplay  of body, gesture, and emotion. Emotionally complex and  intricate rhythms explored  their signature  powerful  movements  as performers explored the capacity of  the human body.
Aparna Sindoor is a thrilling artiste with a fierce passion for all the arts.  Her singing shorn of all orchestration,her voice threading between South Indian languages and English, her deep tenderness using  her body  was riveting.Founder and Director of Navarasa Dance Theater, she has a doctorate in Dance, Cultural and Women’s Studies from Boston University,  and has won  many awards and presented her work in prestigious spaces like Jacob’s Pillow, Bates Dance Festival and Amol Palekar’s Theater Festival. She has also choreographed for Indian films including SM Raju’s ‘Varnam’ and Santhosh Sivan’s ‘Anandabhadram’.
Anil Natyaveda has trained in dance and aerial dance forms. With his lithe dynamic and powerful body he used creative energy and drama to demonstrate his agility as he swung into the empty air with a glorious sense of liberation. He explored the capacity of the human body and unleashed it into space expressing it in story form.
As a duo, Aparna and Anil melded folk tradition and visual imagery into a constantly evolving, adventurous play of bodies swathed in fabric erupting in tumultuous joy as they wove intricate patterns of movement in the air.
Anil is Co-Director choreo-grapher,dancer and teacher of the  martial art Kalari Payattu. He has performed internationally including in the Edinburgh Dance Festival, Germany International Summer Theater Festival and Khajuraho Festival.
Kennedy Kasabares  a commanding aerial artist in the program is  an actor and  has competed in Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival and has worked with  18 Mighty Mountain Warriors and Singapore Rep. 
Complexity and narrative  were enhanced with the exuberant energy, gleeful abandon  and skill of the other dancers, Smitha Radhakrishna, Leah Vincent, and Baja.
Rodhakrishna is a professor at Wellesley College and holds a dectorate from UC Berkelely . Vincent has a Masters in Latin American Studies from Ohio University. Baja has trained in ballet, jazz,and performed with  Colulmbia College  Chicago Dance Theater Red Clay and Speak Hill Dance project.
Ric Zimmerman, Series Lighting Designer and Edward Orlando, Technical Director were responsible for a seamless performance.

Anil Natyaveda link
6/4/2015 08:31:16 am

Thank you Prem Souri Kishore.


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