Now in its 14th year, the Erasing Borders Dance Festival will be all-digital in its presentation. Ten artists qualified in Indian dance sorts from throughout the globe will be brought together in a virtual borderless competition. The dance pageant is one amid Indo-American Arts Council’s other flagship functions showcasing tunes, film, and literature, all focused to furthering the know-how and residing methods of the arts of the Indian sub-continent. Sign-up on Eventbrite listed here to acquire Competition updates and livestream hyperlinks.
Dr. Nirmal Mattoo, Chairman IAAC mentioned, “This year’s Pageant, celebrating the start off of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, will involve 4 efficiency evenings and two early morning workshops. For this yr, the curators chosen dance works that discuss to these reflections on 75 decades. Pondering on the problems of previous struggles, new tips, difficult won achievements, renewed steps, and potential facing resolutions, the Festival curators chosen operates wherever artists consider of dance as their private journey. They replicate on how dance stimulates consciousness and how dance might immediate a sustainable potential. The artists proudly existing their dance as heritage and as section of the world-wide environment.”
Collaborating artists involve Rukmini Vijayakumar, Preethi Athreya, Sonali Skandan, Kalamandalam Adithyan, Kaustavi Sarkar, Jyotsna Vaidee, Vaishali Trivedi, Bindu Rajendren, and Meera Sreenarayanan. Performances spotlight Bharatanatyam, modern, Rajasthani folks, Kathakali, Odissi, and Mohiniyattam kinds of dance. New to the competition this calendar year will be a documentary presentation on September 23 by Kalbeliya World, an international solidary plan that safeguards the art kinds of gals from classic households of the Kalbeliya group in Rajasthan. Two morning workshops will spherical out the competition on September 25 and 26 at 10:00 A.M. ET. The 1st is led by Dr. Krishnakali Dasgupta and covers the Indian classical dance model of Manipuri and the 2nd is a Rajasthani folks workshop performed by Aakansha Maheshwari.
“The Erasing Borders Dance Festival was initially imagined 14 many years again for regional New York audiences,” said Deepsikha Chatterjee, Erasing Borders Dance Director for IAAC. “It has often been and will carry on to be a transcontinental festival provided the focus on Indian dance, whose practitioners reside all about the earth. Offering the festival practically permits Indian dance to be observed throughout the world and in quite a few of its initial options. In 2020 we were able to feature a Purulia Chhau dance corporation of 12 artists of Ashpara Treatment Club carrying out in their village square. Krishnakshi Kashyap carried out Sattriya, a 400-calendar year-old dwelling dance variety in the temple elaborate, in front of the deities as originally meant to be performed as a devotional observe. This year, similarly, we will element Kalbeliya Environment, a documentary on 12 female Kalbeliya folks dancers and their drumming accompanists distributed in a few various destinations in Rajasthan. And Kalamandalam Adithyan will complete Kathakali assisted by his chuttikar (make-up artist), fellow dancers, and several musical accompanists, capturing Kathakali’s natural taste from the southwestern point out of Kerala. Virtuality has allowed the pageant several alternatives.”
“The Erasing Borders Dance Festival is a five-working day dance competition that commemorates and promotes the cultural vibrancy and amalgamation of people today who get in touch with NYC property,” reported Suman Gollamudi, Government Director of the Indo-American Arts Council. “Immigrant artists have usually been essential to the creative landscape of New York City. Across multiple disciplines, immigrants are essential to the city’s worldwide popularity for inventive excellence. The lineup incorporates artists who are nearby New York City people and are from the Indian-American local community.”
Each and every night will consist of a panel discussion with the performers led by moderators who are among the the doyen of the Indian dance group, explained Senior Curator Uttara Coorlawala. Kumudini Lakhia, Arshiya Sethi, Sonal Mansingh, and UK’s Chitra Sundaram will guide these lively panels.