CV

Training

– 8 years in Bharatnatyam with Guru Shubhada Sudhir and since 2010 with Guru Minal Prabhu.

– 3 years in Kathak with Kinnari Modi and 1 year with Guru Dipanjali Bedi.

– 3 years in Classical Ballet with Yana Lewis Dance Academy.

– Improvisation in Movement with Katie Duck, Magpie Umbrella, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

– Contact Improvisation workshops with Lucy May Constantini (UK), Michel Casanovas (France), Liz Erber (USA/Germany), Erica Kaufmann (USA).

Companies worked with:

– Nritarutya Dance Collective, Bangalore (2007 – 2009)

– Shiri Dance Company, Bangalore (2010 – present)

– Apprenticeship with Magpie Umbrella, the Netherlands (June, 2010 – August, 2010)

Performed at:

  • Various national and international art festivals such as Hampi Utsava (2008), Dharwad Utsava (2009), Soorya Festival (2007) Kerala, Trafalgar Square festival (2007)  London, SAMA Festival (2008) New Castle, UK, World Performing Arts Festival (2008) Lahore, Pakistan, Bonjour India Festival (2010) Bangalore, La Centre de Musica Popular Festival, (2011) France.
  • Put up 12 performances on various themes at Summer Improvisation Workshop, Amsterdam, with 14 dancers and 3 musicians.
  • Numerous corporate events, product launches, television presentations, award functions etc.
  • Performed the opening sequence in M S Sathyu’s Kannada film “Ijjodu”, with Nritarutya Dance Collective.
  • Performed a dance sequence in Kannada feature film “Manasology”.

Collaborations:

  • Dance – Painting collaboration with Dutch painters – Edgar Jansen, Hans Gritter, Theo van Loon and Rudd Ritsma.
  • Various dance collaborations with dancers and musicians from India, Europe and the USA.
  • Performance project H2Zero, devised by choreographers Veena Basavarajaiah and Deepak Shivaswamy, performed at National gallery for Modern Arts and UB City.
  • Performance Project – “Beyond the Mirror” with choreographer Michel Casanovas.

School/College projects:

  • Facilitator for Body Talk at The Samhita Academy– a creative movement workshop module for children, devised by Shiri Dance Company.
  • Choreographed a theme-based dance production for 400 children from Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore.
  • Choreographed a theme-based dance production for 15 children of varying age groups in Chamrajnagar.
  • Choreography for St. Mira’s Highschool, Kormangala, Bangalore.
  • Creative Movement classes for Carmel School, Bangalore.
  • Choreography for WelcomGroup School for Hotel Administration, Manipal University.

Dance Creations:

“One more time, please”: A structured improvisational quintet in collaboration with dancers Laura Witzleben, Talya Epstein and musicians double bass player Santiago Botero and drummer Tony Spina. Presented in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

“Bollywood”: A structured improvisational trio deriving from Abhinaya with drummer Tony Spina and Clarinetist Krista Martynes. Presented in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

“Room of Invented Memory”: A structured improvisational quintet with dancers Luanda Carneiro Jacoel, Astarti Athanasiadou and musicians Tony Spina and Krista Martynes. Presented in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

“The Human Emotion Series”: An improvisational solo, exploring the multiple layers of each emotion. A work in progress.