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...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...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...Guru Sri Kiran Subramanyam offers pearls of wisdom for budding dancers. 1) Keep your practice and performance separate and running parallel to each other. Let one not suffer due to excessive attention on the other. 2) Watch performances. See as many as possible, and not necessarily only your type of dancing. 50% of learning comes…
Continue reading...U.K based, internationally acclaimed, Ballet and Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Mavin Khoo offers few words of advice on the art of choreography. 1. With choreography its important to understand it first from a compositional aspects; imagine a building…you have to lay a foundation first before you start decorating…so, being objective and building the…
Continue reading...“YES DANCE MATTERS” (by Smt Lalitha Srinivasan on World Dance Day) It has always mattered at the personal level, when I was 4 to now and will always matter at all levels, in all respects till the end of my day. It has been a panacea for life’s trials and tribulation. It has been a…
Continue reading...As we gear up for Prayog 4, noted danseuse Anita Ratnam shares some tips for a good performance. 1. Your body will never be perfect. Accept it and work with it. Learn to illuminate your strong points – torso, limbs, extensions, twists – whatever you feel works for you and diminishes your weaknesses. For example,…
Continue reading...Santosh Nair, Artistic Director of Delhi based Sadhya shares words of wisdom on the art of Choreography. • Choreography is similar to painting-the floor is your canvas & your dance vocabulary the brush with which you create. • When I create a piece, I explore all possibilities of body being used as a language to…
Continue reading...AUDITION Components and essentials…. By- Madhuri Upadhya Dance Auditions are a systematic process through which professionals select suitable artists who are required to give a sample performance. If you compare it to other industries it’s more or less like a job interview, only harder because your body cannot lie. In the field of dance, there…
Continue reading...