Hiromi Maruhashi has been coming to Kerala every year to keep her connect with Mohiniyattam. She recently attended a workshop led by danseuse Neena Prasad
At Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions, “Dance Training Is Life Training”
Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions started as a dream: A dream to share the fresh, new training techniques and material being taught in major cities like Los Angeles and New York with dance students throughout the country. President and co-founder Dr. Joe Tremaine (who received an honorary doctorate from The University of Arizona) has a long history of working with the best in the business—as a dancer, a choreographer, and an educator. (He’s worked with a star-studded list of entertainers, including Paula Abdul, Gregory Hines, Gene Kelly, and Barbara Streisand, to name a few.) In the 1970s, Tremaine opened the Joe Tremaine Dance Center in Los Angeles, and in […]
At Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions, “Dance Training Is Life Training”
Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions started as a dream: A dream to share the fresh, new training techniques and material being taught in major cities like Los Angeles and New York with dance students throughout the country. President and co-founder Dr. Joe Tremaine (who received an honorary doctorate from The University of Arizona) has a long history of working with the best in the business—as a dancer, a choreographer, and an educator. (He’s worked with a star-studded list of entertainers, including Paula Abdul, Gregory Hines, Gene Kelly, and Barbara Streisand, to name a few.) In the 1970s, Tremaine opened the Joe Tremaine Dance Center in Los Angeles, and in […]
Best Practices for Working With Students With Disabilities With Sandra Stratton-Gonzalez and Agnes McConlogue Ferro
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Anitha Guha’s ‘Parishvanga Pattabhishekam’ highlighted the enduring appeal of the epic
The thematic production had episodes from Bala, Ayodhya and Aranya Kandams
How culture festivals organised at forts and palaces help in heritage conversation
April 18 is World Heritage Day and we look at the way culture departments, festival curators and heritage conservationists are drawing up innovative ideas to keep the curiosity about the past alive.
The Articulate Festival showed how poetry finds diverse interpretations in dance
Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee, Deepak Majumdar and Aruna Mohanty performed at the sixth edition of the festival held recently in Bengaluru
Yadavan Chandran’s ‘Meanwhile Elsewhere’ turns the stage into a picture of realism
Based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Yadavan Chandran’s ‘Meanwhile Elsewhere’ offers a chance to understand life’s calmness, complexity and confusion; Mallika Sarabhai as Marco Polo leads the process.
Shuttling gracefully between passion and profession
Bengaluru-based Bharatanatyam dancer, Navyashree B.N., celebrates her silver jubilee in pursuing the art with an evening of dance called ‘Natya Ranjini Mala’ on April 26
Why Dancers Are Prone to Impostor Syndrome
Jenn Edwards has crafted a multifaceted career: She performs with Le Patin Libre, a contemporary skating company, dances, teaches, and choreographs for gymnasts and dancers, and plays in a band. Though her breadth of work is impressive, she’s also struggled with periods of self-doubt, questioning whether she truly belonged in any of her chosen fields. “Because I’ve hopped around to different disciplines a lot, I sometimes felt like I wasn’t an expert at any one of those things—I was just sort of a fraud at all of them,” she says. Edwards’ experiences are indicative of impostor syndrome. While the intense […]