Projects and Workshops in UK with Srishti Dance Creations
2004 to 2011 saw a wide range of productions, the subjects and themes being very unique and from diverse fields such as… football, Love, London business life, Venus the planet, Romeo & Juliet, chess and human relations etc.
Workshops & Performances in the UK
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Love Is In The Air, 2011
Using a male-dominated cast, Love is in the Air tackles the issue of gangs in the UK whilst celebrating the loyalty and solidarity shared by friendship groups, often misconstrued as gangs.
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These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things, 2010
These Are a Few of My Favourite Things is a glittering selection of previous works
Kadala ... Is it love? (from Mirage, 2006) 30 minutes
Bend It ... (from Play Ball, 2008) 20 minutes
QUICK! (2006) 20 minutes -
My Stamping Ground, 2009
My Stamping Ground is a fresh take on a classic story. Be it Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Broadway's West Side Story or Bollywood's Josh, the tension of forbidden love has always caused thrill and heartbreak throughout the ages. This is the story of a torrid love affair amidst feuding gangs.
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Bend It ... Aerial, 2008
A mind-blowing collision between football and Bharatanatyam brings "the beautiful game" out of the theatre to its natural habitat, the outdoors.
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Play Ball – Bend it, Chemistry, Quick, 2008
This work is a triple bill of short Bharatanatyam dance pieces. This work with live music shows off "what the lads do" when at play, when in love and when at work.
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Quiet Please, 2007
The work weaves a romantic love triangle set in India around the hurly burly of the manic London business world that is driven by aggression and competition.
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Mirage - Kadala & Checkers, 2006
Kadala ... Is it love? This work, portrays a woman in love and Checkers – a Human Chess Board.
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Women are from Venus – Shukra, 2005
Shukra is an abstract work that celebrates the planet Venus within the Hindu aesthetic.
Performances and Workshops in USA
They could range from Yoga, Adavu training, abhinaya, technique classes, fitness and body conditioning workshops etc.
Body Kinetics – working on the Body, Breath, Mind and Self; integrating them into a capsule, an exercise routine.
Imparting specific items to students from dance repertory or teaching a margam.
Choreographing, presenting and performing in specific commissioned dance productions which could be theme based, abstract, mythological and/or historical.
Bharatnatyam Solo performances.
Workshops & Performances in USA
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Tour - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Workshops – San Antonio, Atlanta, Phoenix, Sunny Vale, San Diego, Nashville, Dallas, and Detroit
Karuna Shakti– Performance tour, Kala Nivedanam, Nashville, Greensboro, Murfreesboro (2015) Solo Performances- Triad- Greensboro, North Carolina (2016) -
Tour - July-October 2013
Karuna Shakti – Performance tour, Kala Nivedanam, Nashville
Solo Bharatnatyam– Magic in movement, Arathi School of Dance, Phoenix
Workshops in - San Antonio, Dallas , Atlanta, Phoenix
Indian Fine Arts Academy, San Diego - Solo Bharatnatyam 15th Sept -
Tour - August-October 2012
Kalpavriksha – The Giving tree, Atlanta (Principle dancer in a thematic production)
Bharatnatyam Solo and workshops at 5 venues - Phoenix, Dallas, San Diego, New York. Seattle. -
Tour - August-September 2010
Purusha - 8 performances in a month, an all-male dancers group toured USA. Seshadri Iyengar presented Bharatnatyam.
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Tour 2008
St.Louis Indian Dance Festival 12th September Clayton High School Auditorium, St.Louis, USA
Bharatnatyam Solo – Hindu temple, Nashville
Prana – Production for a NGO- working for cystic Fibrosis -
Tour 2004 – workshop and performance
Sakshi a Musical on a folktale 12th September 2004, Magic in Movement, Chandler Center for the Arts Arathi School of India - Dances, Phoenix, Arizona. USA
AKKA - World Kannada Convention 3rd-5th September 2004 Solo performance & ‘Let Go’ a dance feature, Orlando, Florida, USA
Pragathi – Dance Feature on Karnataka 1st August 2004 workshop and performance- Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation & Arathi School of Dance. Majestic Theatre, Dallas, USA -
Celestial Dance Ballet July - August 2003
Amrutha Mantana and Sahasrara - Tour of 10 cities in USA International Association for Human Values & the Art of Living Foundation
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Tour 1996
Mustard Seeds 4th August 1996 Contemporary Intercultural Dance theatre, Rangoli Foundation for Arts & Culture. LA
Bharatnatyam Solo - Hindu Temple society of Southern California 16th June 1996
Workshop and Bharatnatyam solo – Indian cultural Heritage centre, Dallas
Projects and Workshops in Canada
Workshops & Performances in Canada
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Ganga (the river Ganges) Janak Khendry Dance Company
July – September Work schedule.
Performance 17th to 20th September, 2009
Fleck Dance Theatre, Toronto -
Love’s Folly (based upon a verse of Bhartrihari) - Menaka Thakkar Dance Company
Performance - 25th & 26th September 2009
Fleck Dance Theatre, Toronto -
Kaal – the Time and Ganga - Janak Khendry Dance Company, Toronto
Rehearsal and choreography January and February 2013
Tour dates February 25 to March 14, 2013
Kuwait, Oman, Muscat, Patna, Shillong and New Delhi
