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Geared up to dance April 29 highlights
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April 29 is designated as World Dance Day, and Delhi is ready for it
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Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
Let the show begin Dancers young and old will participate in the World Dance Day programmes starting this weekend
World Dance Day that comes round every April 29 has been picking up steadily in India ever since it was declared by UNESCO’s International Dance Council (abbreviated as CID for Conseil International de la Danse). Like most celebrations, a day i
s not enough to contain the events, so the shows start over the weekend. While Spic-Macay takes dancers to schools across the Capital, Geeta Chandran’s Natyavriksha and Arshiya Sethi’s Kri Foundation juxtapose dance and its image in their own ways.
The schedule
At the India International Centre, Natya Vriksha flags off the proceedings this Saturday, 26 April with an evening with well known dance photographer Avinash Pasricha. Entitled “Your Face, My Eye, Your Mudra, My Lens”, the session starts at 5 p.m. This will be followed by a Bharatanatyam recital by Geeta Chandran at 6.30 p.m.
On Sunday, 27 April, at 5 p.m. photographer Ram Dhamija will show photographs of two dance legends — Balasaraswati and Shambhu Maharaj. In his talk The Maestro and the Diva, Ram Dhamija will speak on his interactions with these two iconic dancers.
This will be followed by a Kathak recital by Saswati Sen at 6.30 p.m.
Meanwhile, at the India Habitat Centre, the Kri Foundation presents live performances and films on dance, April 27 to 29. Described as showcasing the traditional and modern faces of dance, the event includes DanzLenz, “the Video Dance Festival of India” (April 27 and 29), with short films on a range of dance topics. Describing video dance as an “expression of a new genre of art”, Arshiya Sethi says it “takes you to those angles and sides of dance to which dance in performance can never succeed in doing.” Now in its third year, DanzLenz will feature films brought to India in collaboration with Pro Helevetia, the Swiss Arts Council in India.
On Monday, April 28, Sonal Mansingh, Prathibha Prahlad and Jayant Kastuar, perform Odissi, Bharatanatyam and Kathak respectively.
World Dance Day may have been instituted by UNESCO to underline the importance of dance in human civilisation, but for school kids, it will be business as usual.
Except for a dose of spice in the form of dance programmes at various schools.
Beginning at 10 a.m., these are open to the public too.
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•Kiran Segal – Odissi – Junior Modern School, Humayun Road
•Shovana Narayan – Kathak – DPS, Indirapuram,
Ghaziabad
•Yamini Reddy – Kuchipudi – Bal Bharati, Pitampura
•Uma Sharma DAV School, Noida
•All programmes start at 10 a.m.
•For further information
Call 011-26596203.
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