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June
1, 2008 Anaheim, CA
Ramya Harishankar and Arpana Dance Company perform Assemblies, Edison Elementary School, Anaheim, CA Performance under the banner of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA e-mail: info@arpanadancecompany.org / www.arpanadancecompany.org |
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1, 2008 Singapore
Soorya (Singapore) presents SOORYA GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF INDIAN DANCE & MUSIC 2008. The event will have an enchanting dance segment as well as an exhilarating music segment of some of the most acclaimed classical art forms of India by highly accomplished artistes, in one evening. This is part of the Soorya global festival, which travels across 15 countries. The dance segment features three renowned dancers performing three of the great classical dance styles of India - Kuchipudi, Mohiniattam and Kathak. Kuchipudi is presented by Uma Muralikrishna, Mohiniattam by Methil Devika and Kathak by Anjana Jha, coming together for the very first time in this Soorya Global Festival series. The music segment features a jugalbandhi (union of two styles) of Hindustani and Carnatic styles of Northern and Southern India in two of the great stringed classical music instruments - veena and sitar. While Veena is the quintessential symbol of South Indian (Carnatic) music style, Sitar is the celebrated symbol of North Indian (Hindustani) music. Veena is presented by Maestro Anantha Padmanabhan and Sitar by Ustad Rafique Khan. They will be accompanied by percussion instrumentalists - Anil on Mridangam (for Veena) and M. Jayan on Tabla (for Sitar). Vocal support will be provided by Sudha Ranjith Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall, 6pm Tickets. For Soorya members it is free. Contacts: Chitra 9369 2920 / 6446 2934, Krishnakumar 9389 0407 e-mail: soorya.sg@gmail.com |
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June
1 - 12, 2008 California
Ramya Harishankar and Arpana Dance Company perform - June 1: Salute to Recreation, Northridge, CA - June 6 & 7: GANGA...LIFE AS A RIVER City Heights Weingart Performance Annex, 3795 Fairmount Ave, San Diego, CA, 8pm www.sulekha.com/losangeles - June 12, Assemblies, Edison Elementary School, Anaheim, CA under the banner of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA e-mail: info@arpanadancecompany.org / www.arpanadancecompany.org |
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June
6, 2008 Kolkata
Anniversary program of Samskritiki Shreyaskar will present NRITYA UMANG – a Kathak presentation at Madhusudan Manch, Kolkata, conceived and choreographed by Rani Karnaa. e-mail: ranikarn@vsnl.net / www.ranikathak.com |
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June
7, 2008 Santa Clara
Anitha Sivasankaran, Adeeti Ullal, Pranamya Suri Bharatanatyam
and Kuchipudi performances by Pranamya Suri, Student of Srilatha Suri (Plano,
Texas), Adeeti Ullal, student of Vidhya Subrahmanyam, Anitha Sivasankaran,
student of Palghat Chandrasekhar.
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June
7 & 8, 2008 San Jose, CA
Abhinaya Dance Company performs in SAN FRANCISCO ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL - World Premiere of new work with SF Foundation’s Choreography Commission Award Vocal: EP Sudev Warrier; Mridangam: K S Sudhaman; Flute: A P Krishna Prasad June 7, at 2pm and 8pm, June 8, 2008 at 2pm At: Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA 94123 e-mail: abhinaya_sj@yahoo.com / www.abhinaya.org |
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June
7 - 15, 2008 MO, NY
The14 member Odissi dance group, Rudraksha, led by Guru Bichitrananda Swain perform at St. Louis, MO on June 7; New York, NY on June 14 & 15. For more information: rudrakshya2008@gmail.com |
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June
10, 2008 Ottawa, Canada
Sampradaya Dance Creations presents Shunya & B2 at the CANADA DANCE FESTIVAL 2008 National Arts Centre, Ottawa, 8.30pm e-mail: lata@sampradaya.ca / www.sampradaya.ca |
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June
11 - 14, 2008 London
Akram Khan Company / National Ballet of China Akram Khan now works with nine dancers, as five performers from his own kathak-contemporary company go head-to-head with four classically-trained dancers from the National Ballet of China. Khan’s dancers come from diverse cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds. Khan once again joins forces with two long-time collaborators, acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi and multi award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney, who will create an original score for bahok At: Sadlers Wells, Roseberry Avenue, Islington. |
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June
12, 2008 Anaheim, CA
Ramya Harishankar and Arpana Dance Company perform for Assemblies Edison Elementary School, Anaheim, CA (under the banner of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA) e-mail: info@arpanadancecompany.org / www.arpanadancecompany.org |
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June
12 - 15, 2008 Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis/Saint Paul - Ananya Dance Theatre’s community of women artists of color move on in their examinational journey of global environmental injustices and their resulting social damages by presenting a call to action in DAAK. It is the second work in a three part series responding specifically to the impact of land rights movements upon the already vulnerable social and environmental conditions in which many of the world’s women and children are forced to live. Like much of ADT’s past presentations, Daak calls upon untold histories of difficult but necessary journeys undertaken by women across the world to transmit their message and rouse a desire for action. At: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave S., Minneapolis, MN, 55454 June 12: 8pm / June 13: 8pm (Post-show discussion) June 14: 8pm (Post-show discussion) / June 15: 7pm e-mail: publicrelations@ananyadancetheatre.org |
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June
14, 2008 Scotch Plains, NJ
Shubanjali School of Performing Arts presents ROOPA VIROOPA in classical Bharatanatyam and Folk traditions, an imaginary Indian adaptation of the famous fairytale BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Art Direction: Suba Ramesh Parmar, Music and Concept: Sanjay & Shama, Bangalore, India Character Roles: Suba Ramesh Parmar, Monalisa Dhobley, Sharbari Bose, Anuradha Renganathan, Aditi Khatri, Ragaranjani Gunnia, Marichandra Murugan, Sumana Ramakrishnan, Dhanya Chandramohan, Minal Patel, Madhumita Parmar and over 70 students from the Shubanjali School of Performing Arts At: Terrill Middle School Auditorium, 1301 Terrill Road, 5:30pm Contact: Shubanjali - 908-490-0732 / subaparmar@yahoo.com |
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June
14, 2008 Toronto, Canada
Toronto's LUMINATO INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL'S ILLUMINATIONS SERIES on dance addresses the question "Is dance undergoing yet another radical evolution?" Engage with a pas de cinq of distinguished artists for this discussion on the life of dance. Jean Grand- Maître, Artistic Director of the Alberta Ballet and choreographer of The Fiddle and the Drum is joined by Karen Kain, Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada; Peggy Baker, founding member and former Artistic Director of Dancemakers; Toronto dancer and choreographer Clarence Ford; and Hari Krishnan. The moderator is Toronto dance and opera critic Michael Crabb. The event will be at The Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts at 145 Queen St. West in Toronto at 11.30am. For more info: http://www.luminato.com/festival/eng/events/ID61/index.php www.indance.ca |
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June
15, 2008 Toronto, Canada
Sampradaya Dance Creations performs RANG at the Luminat, eau festival 2008. Toronto Star Stage - Harbourfront Centre, 5pm. e-mail: lata@sampradaya.ca / www.sampradaya.ca |
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June
15, 2008 Pollachi, Tamilnadu
Bharatanatyam recitals by Sweta Ravisankar, a senior disciple of Guru Padmini Radhakrishnan of Soundarya Natya Kalalaya, Mumbai, for Pollachi Tamil Isai Sangam. e-mail: kousankar@yahoo.com |
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22, 2008 Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Sunday @ 4pm. Double Bill! RANGOLI FESTIVAL OF SOLOS presents an evening of Bharatanatyam dances including time honored classics and premieres. Featured Dancer: Shaheen Sheik Evening concludes with 'Sonorous Strings of Sarod,' classical music by Shaheen Sheik and her guru David Trasoff. At: Rangoli Space, 14802 Huston St, Sherman Oaks, CA Tickets & Reservation: shaheen@shaheensheik.com / 310 600 4743 Admission: $15 / Limited Seating www.rangoli.org |
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June
26, 2008 Bali, Indonesia
 Maya
Dance Theatre’s latest dance theatre production INTER-FACE will make its
world debut at the upcoming 30TH BALI ARTS FESTIVAL 2008.
Presented through the fusion of ethnic dance forms woven together through the medium of modern contemporary dance, INTER-FACE will explore a new vocabulary of movements that showcases the amalgamation of Asian Fusion dance forms (Balinese / Javanese dance form with Indian dance, namely Bharatanatyam and Odissi. Kavitha Krishnan creative director of the production, intends to create a new dance vocabulary of presentation through the collaboration between the different dancers from different origins, thus providing an inter-face for the dancers to communicate through dance. INTER-FACE is the first time collaboration between Maya Dance Theatre and V Balakrishnan, one of Singapore leading male Bharatanatyam dancers and Ajit Bhaskaran, a renowned Malaysian Odissi dancer, with directions and choreography by Kavitha Krishnan, Creative Director of Maya Dance Theatre, and presenting Maya Dance Theatre dancers: Khairul Shahrin, Shanti Gomes and Sufri Juwahir. 7.30pm to 9pm, Ksirarnawa Indoor Stage in Denpasar, Bali. Admission is free. Contact: Imran Manaff, 65-+62980996 / e-mail: info@Mayadancetheatre.org |
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28, 2008 Highland Park, IL
Natya Dance Theatre Chicago, Hema Rajagopalan, Artistic Director KATHA - Stories for all audiences Company performance at Ravinia Festival Martin Theatre, 200 Ravinia Park Drive, Highland Park, IL 60035, 11am Tickets: www.ravinia.org Information: www.natya.com; bill@natya.com; 312-212-1240 |
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