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Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
“So astonishing were they in their delicate synchronization and fluidity that one audience member simply murmured ‘Wow’ at the end, unable at first to clap!”—The New York Times
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble blends Odissi, a classical Indian dance form, with contemporary concepts to transport viewers to enchanted worlds of magic and spirituality. Their new fascinating program is Saṃyoga (Sanskrit for combination, union, synthesis, conjunction of two or more heavenly bodies). Saṃyoga is the outcome of years spent in finding the perfect balance of art and craft, strength and grace, technique and spirit, confidence and vulnerability, as well as of a male godhead and his essential feminine divine. Living and working together for the past twenty years in Nrityagram Dance Village, Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy have created art that is as deeply illuminating as exhilarating. They appear with their music ensemble.
Tickets $33–$51
Join us for a pre-concert talk by Rajika Puri, an Indian classical dance expert, at 6:00 p.m. in Gartner Auditorium. Using images from the museum’s collection of Indian art, the lecture delves into the relationships between Indian dance, music, sculpture, mythology, poetry, and painting, all illustrated with slides, storytel
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Ms. Puri, as readers of ExploreDance.com already know, is both an excellent scholar and performer. I am just going to mention a few tidbits of her presentation to whet your appetite.
Nrityagram, which means dance village, was set up as a training institute for Odissi just outside of Bangalore, India (as well as for other Indian dance forms, some of which have been realized to date and some of which have not). Odissi comes from India's Orissa state. Odissi was originally a temple dance meant to entertain the deity. During the British colonial period (which ended in 1947), the colonial administrators discouraged all forms of Indian dance because many in the Victorian Age saw dance as being immoral in the sense that it was perceived as too "sexual". Odissi and other Indian dance
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Dancing the Gods: Program Figure - SURUPA SEN tidy a solo concert of Odissi dances, preceded by SONALI SKANDAN eliminate a accordingly work tight spot contemporary Bharatanatyam
Tickets: $10.00 – fellow benefits apply
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