1. The idea of improvisation. Improvise! Search for movement. Do not hurry. Try the theme in ten different ways and choose the best. Experiment. 2. Choreography is a collaborative effort. Involve your dancers. Take movement material from dancers. This will enhance and improve the movt vocabulary 3. Learn different styles of dance. This will help…
Continue reading...Photo credits: Avinash Pasricha In conversation with Aranyani Bhargav; Bangalore’s emerging choreographer! 1. A secret Mantra for confidence? I don’t have a secret mantra for confidence. I think confidence comes from working hard and validating your work through that. But I suppose it would be “Have faith in what you do and why you do…
Continue reading...Pia Bunglowala speaks of her experience performing Madhuri Upadhya’s choreography “Matsyaangnaa” for our upcoming production “Prayog”. Madhuri is a painter with the giant brush in her hand and with every stroke; she creates a movement world that is like a painting. In her piece, every moment feels like a still, a painting with each frame…
Continue reading...One of the youngest dancers of the company, Niranjan speaks about his experience performing for two different choreographies, viz. Manmatha and Wildflower by Madhuri Upadhya and Vishwakiran Nambi respectively: Photo credit: Ravi Shankar Anything close to your heart will necessarily go beyond your control. Artistic production and visionary experience relates more to life unlike other…
Continue reading...Tips from Guru Smt. Sandhya Kiran This is particularly for classical dancers- Don’t go overboard on your costumes. Less is more – always. Mix and match colours and designs those are not too jarring to the eye. Use a combination of larger and smaller pieces of jewellery to create a complete picture. When you find…
Continue reading...by Preethi Bharadwaj Jaipur – The Pink City, a city which caught our senses for the unthinkable amount of shopping we could do!! It all started with short, strenuous and instilling practice sessions to learn Mayuri’s Choreography “Kaali”. On night of May 8, at 23:00 we get a text message from Geetha asking us to report…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...Excerpts from a conversation between Guru Smt. Bhanumathi. B (Bhanu Akka) and Mayuri Upadhya, Artistic Director, Nritarutya.
Continue reading...We had Bhanu Akka with us at our rehearsals to and needless to say, it was a great interactive session. She emotes and how! All of us were awestruck with her abhinaya. She sat patiently with us throughout the rehearsals and advised us on how to emote; correcting the most minute of the…
Continue reading...Company dancer Ashwin Kumar recounts his experience of working for The Dewarists Season 03 Finale with The Raghu Dixit Project. Read on… As I sit to write this, I am a little confused as to where do I begin? DEWARISTS! There was so much that went into the entire process of the final output…
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