Nava Dance Theatre performs November 8th for the Rotunda Dance Series.

The Rotunda Dance Series brings many of the Bay Area’s most celebrated dance companies to San Francisco City Hall for free monthly noon-time performances and is presented by Dancers’ Group and World Arts West in partnership with Grants for the Arts and SF City Hall.

Nadhi Thekkek is awarded the Mythili Kumar Emerging Artist Award.

HMD's Bridge Project and SFMOMA's Open Space present

INHERITED BODIES // How do movement artists in different traditions contend with, honor, and resist the past?

SEPT. 26TH | 6PM
@ The Women's Building (3543 18th St, SF)
FREE, RSVP required -----> https://www.artful.ly/store/events/17848

FEATURING
a series of lecture demonstrations by Sara Shelton Mann, Jarrel Phillips, Nadhi Thekkek, and Snowflake Towers

The featured artists will respond to the following questions through language and movement:

- How does history/the past operate in your work?
- Who or what are the giants in your tradition (whether forgotten or celebrated) and how do they figure in your work?
- How do you navigate between traditional and experimental forms in your work?

Following the four artists' presentations, there will be a group discussion, moderated by Claudia La Rocco, Director of Community Engagement and Editor-in-Chief, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space.

Nadhi Thekkek collaborates with Rasika Kumar (Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose) and Sahasra Sahi Sambamoorthi (Navatman Dance, NYC) as they explore the normal female life and its boiling points. This production is inspired by the #metoo movement and its pervasiveness.

Rasika, Nadhi, and Sahi have been developing this work over the last 2 years and are excited to bring you its first edition. Bay Area native Roopa Mahadevan has composed the music and will be joined by a stellar orchestra, Aditya Ganesh, Conal Sathi, Sruti Sarathy, and Malavika Kumar Walia.

Nadhi Thekkek collaborates with Rasika Kumar (Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose) and Sahasra Sahi Sambamoorthi (Navatman Dance, NYC) as they explore the normal female life and its boiling points. This production is inspired by the #metoo movement and its pervasiveness.

Rasika, Nadhi, and Sahi have been developing this work over the last 2 years and are excited to bring you its first edition. Bay Area native Roopa Mahadevan has composed the music and several local musicians join her on the stellar orchestra.

Nadhi Thekkek collaborates with Rasika Kumar (Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose) and Sahasra Sahi Sambamoorthi (Navatman Dance, NYC) as they explore the normal female life and its boiling points. This production is inspired by the #metoo movement and its pervasiveness.

Rasika, Nadhi, and Sahi have been developing this work over the last 2 years and are excited to bring you its first edition. Bay Area native Roopa Mahadevan has composed the music and several local musicians join her on the stellar orchestra.

Nadhi Thekkek performs at CounterPulse Innerspace Gala!

CounterPulse is the Innerspace of the Bay Area arts constellation. We are a celestial community of futurists and galvanizers. We are the constellation of visionaries that invest in each other, to ensure our collective paths are starlight and far out.

Support CounterPulse by bidding at the silent auction, an intergalactic array of treats and experiences that sustain the mind and body for the galaxy ahead. Feast on a gourmet celestial dinner catered by Fogcutter. Get down with your fellow martians on the dance floor with free drinks all night.
Immerse yourself in radical performances and live art by your favorite artists. This party is for you, for all of us.

Come dressed as your favorite Innerspace creature from another galaxy!

Performances and live art by: Nadhi Thekkek/ Nava Dance Theater, Maurya Kerr/ tinypistol, Lxs Dxs (jose e. abad, Gabriel Christian, Felix Linck Sol Frenz, Stephanie Hewett, jubilee july, & randy reyes), Melissa Lewis, Brea Weinreb, Sammay Dizon / URBAN x INDIGENOUS, animals + giraffes (Claudia LaRocco and Phillip Greenlief), and more!

This salon series explores the power of the traditional solo bharatanatyam repertoire. By way of discussion, performance, and food, we learn about and explore what classical repertoire still gives us today.

Also, we just love varnams. The varnam is often the “main” piece in a solo bharatanatyam performance. It allows a dancer to go deep into content and explore his or her connection to the timeless characters in these pieces. It often lasts between 20-40 minutes, with some varnams by senior masters lasting over 50 minutes to packed halls.

This salon features Roopa Suresh, Vertika Srivastava, and Lalli Venkat.

Roopa will present a full varnam, while Vertika and Lalli will be presenting other pieces from the bharatanatyam solo repertoire.

Suggested donation: $15

Join Navatman NYC for their first studio showing of 2019 featuring Nadhi Thekkek, artistic director of Nava Dance Theatre. Her fluid motions, sweet yet profound abhinaya and incredibly thought out work make her someone whose solo work can be quite entrancing. She will be presenting new choreographies alongside old ones. Guest musicians include senior composer/flautist GS Rajan, and wonderful musicians Akshaya Rajkumar (vocal), Bala Skandan (mridangam), and Sri Thina Subramaniam (nattuvangam.) Tickets are $20 online and $25 at the door.