At Rajasthan Fashion Week

 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…

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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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RISING-A promising new talent

    Three celebrated choreographers, one exceptional artist – that is what “Rising” is all about. Aptly titled, “Rising” showcases one of the most promising dancers of contemporary times – Aakash Odedra. Aakash hails from Leicester, U.K and has trained in Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Indo- Jazz and Contemporary. Over the years he has given many stage…

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Nritarutya inaugurates Kotyadipathi

Surprise surprise!! Choreographer, Mayuri Upadhya and team Nritarutya’s professional wing was offered the opening choreography and dance direction in the most awaited mega reality show-Kannada da KOTYADIPATHI. Music score was by ace composer/singer Raghu Dixit. Inspired by the success of Hindi serial “Kaun Banega Crorepati’” hosted by Amitabh Bachchan, Suvarna channel introduces this show into regional…

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“The Hindu” features Mayuri Upadhya

Hindu Paper features Artistic Director, Mayuri Upadhya on winning Bronze for India at the International Choreography Competition, held in South Korea.          

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Madras Music Season –writes Mayuri

How important is a breather space to an artiste? Only as essential as inhaling and exhaling oxygen or as exciting work coming one’s way. So, my survival instincts made me think up a few things that would take me away from my dance studio and to re-energize I, me ,myself. As part of my “…

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Learning Mars

Company dancer Abhishek Singhania reminisces his experience of learning Mars, one of the most acclaimed choroegraphies from Nritarutya.   A year after I joined the company, I started learning “Mars”. The piece choreographed by Sathya BG is the one of the most popular and technically demanding work. This very fact made me conscious as it…

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