Student speak

A techie, self confessed art lover and one of our students Narita describes her experience at our dance class. Read on – “Nritarutya follows the traditional way of teaching. The initial training focuses on building up the body to dance which includes stamina building, developing control, balancing, body conditioning, flexibility, alignment aspects. The training period…

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Somatic Awareness

Berlin based Annekaterin Trautmann conducted a workshop for Nritarutya’s core dance team. The work shop aimed at bringing holistic somatic awareness thereby helping the dancers gain more freedom of movement. Body alignment, weight distribution and activating deep-seated muscles were emphasized upon. And after all the heavy duty work, the dancers emerged more relaxed, more conscious…

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Workshop at Parniti Kalakendra

It was that time of the year for my get away to teach dance outside Bangalore. My destination was to the classical dancers of Pariniti Kalakendra in Sagara. Sri Gopal Sagar (Director) and Sri Chinmayi (Dance critic) has been in conversation with me for a year and the dates finally materialized during our Republic day….

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STUDENTS SPEAK.

Nritarutya’s principal dancer, Vishwakiran, conducted 20 hours of Indian contemporary dance session at Christ University. Here’s what the students have to say about it…. 1. Given the name of the institution the dance instructor was from, my expectations from these 20 hours of Contemporary Dance Training was quite high and it more than lived up…

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Scottish Dance Theatre with Nritarutya!

Sally Owen, Assistant director of Scottish Dance Theatre along with company dancers Eve Ganneau and Matthew Robinson conducted a dance workshop for Nritarutya on October 26, 2012. Sally began with a discussion regarding the choreography process of the three dance pieces – “Drift”, “Dog” and “Luxuria” that they had performed the day before. This was…

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MOVE THE SCOTTISH WAY!

    Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) is Scotland’s national contemporary dance company and is part of Dundee Rep Theatre. SDT’s programme includes work by internationally celebrated and emerging choreographers. The repertoire is constantly evolving, pushing boundaries and expectations. The company has 9 dancers and 2 apprentice dancers and tours throughout the UK and internationally, with…

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Creative chaos

By Masoom Parmar For the past one week, the company is breathing, talking, eating, walking and sleeping just this production. Needless to say we are all excited about how this production turns up and how we, as artistes, grow along with it. Working on such a huge production with 80 dancers is no small feat. The…

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Class note

Its always good to hear from our class enthusiasts. Meet Ben, a Karate student, who also loves exploring other movement disciplines. He takes up Geetha’s class in Koramanagala centre and writes this note to her in response. “Thanks again for opening your class to me. It was a privilege to learn from you and see…

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Learning contact improvisation

Contact improvisation (CI) is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. If you want to be part of Nritarutya’s dance education sessions/ Indian contemporary dance planners and improvisations write to info@nritarutya.com. Classes are mentored by our principal dancer, Vishwa Kiran- www.nritarutya.com/dancers Contact Improvisation is a…

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Dance education at Nritarutya

As part of Nritarutya’s dance education series, we’ve introduced Open classes for anyone interested in understanding their body mechanics. From Trained professional dancers, beginners to fitness enthusiasts we’d love to have more to dance with. To introduce one of city’s best dance gurus,Nakula Somana..we share his thoughts:   Little about your dance history I have…

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