Join us as the Unrehearsed Artist Residency cohort members share a snippet of the projects that they have been working on! Day 1
Use bharatanatyam inspired technique, music, and narrative building to inform your creative process and find new ways to move! Class will include working with live music, how to bring subtext and story into movement, and looking at both rhythm and gesture from a creative lens. We teach a short phrase to unconventional music to help us dig deeper into all of these perspectives. Rohan Krishnamurthy will be joining us on percussion, and Roopa Mahadevan will be bringing her vocal stylings! We will be working with them to better understand and explore musicality through movement.
Mondavi Center presents, Broken Seeds Still Grow, a multi-disciplinary dance and visual art production created by Nava Dance Theater and Rupy C. Tut that explores the continuing impact of the 1947 British-India Partition, one of the most formative events in South Asia’s recent history.
Beginner Bharatanatyam Classes, every Saturday starting February 1st from 2:30 to 4 PM at Shawl Anderson.
Intermediate/Advanced Bharatanatyam classes every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30pm at Shawl Anderson Dance Center.
URP presents a special work in progress virtual screening of an excerpt of cohort member Sudesh Mantillake's film, Response to Tea Dance. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Sudesh and his collaborators. Register here to attend!
Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies is a bharatanatyam, experimental movement, and live music production that explores the labor and lived experiences of South Asian immigrant women in the United States.
Nava Dance Theatre comes to UMass as part of the Fine Arts Center’s Reimagine Residencies program. The company will spend a week on campus in production and engaging with students. The residency culminates in a public performance and question-and-answer session.
This year the showcase will feature workshops and live performances, with a reception at the end where we will screen performances from our artist based in India and Sri Lanka.
2024 URP Art Share featuring Pritam Das, Dayita Nereyeth, and Shwetha Gopalakrishnan
Presented by Matrusena as part of Interbeing, Nadhi Thekkek and Shruti Abishek will be performing “This is Work, Too,” an loose excerpt from the production “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies.”
Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies will be in Livermore in 2024! Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies is an ensemble work of 7 dancers with a live original score by Roopa Mahadevan, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, and others. Rogue Gestures were created and produced by Nava Dance Theatre
Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies will be in Annapolis in 2024! Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies is an ensemble work of 7 dancers with a live original score by Roopa Mahadevan, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, and others. Rogue Gestures were created and produced by Nava Dance Theatre
Rogue Gestures is an ensemble work of 7 dancers with a live original score by Roopa Mahadevan, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, and others. Rogue Gestures were created and produced by Nava Dance Theatre.
Day 2 of the 2023 URP Art Share featuring SNJV, Aravind Divakaran, Anand Dhanakoti, Sruthi Natanakumar
