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Life’s Little Pleasures | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. Life’s Little Pleasures. December 16, 2014. First published in the Deccan Herald, Nov 2014. Cover photo by Ranjana Dave. It’s true, what they say about the small joys of life. Early mornings suffused by classical music streaming out from ancient record players left vivid impressions on Sharmila Biswas’s childhood in Kolkata. This year, new and old discoveries come together for Biswas at a poignant juncture, for she is in the midst of creating a curriculu...
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Ant, Interrupted | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. April 21, 2015. First published in the Sunday Herald, April 19, 2015. Link to article. Cover image by Avatara Ayuso. Gati Summer Dance Residency. Impressions of the Swiss Contemporary Dance Days 2015. The Master of Light →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new posts via email.
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ranjana | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. Review: Across, Not Over. Translated into German by Marc Staudacher and first published by Tanz, Berlin, February 2016. (Cover image: Vikram Iyengar in Across, Not Over, sourced from the ImpulsTanz Facebook event page) Read […]. Read Article →. Dance is the ultimate destination. February 5, 2016. Read Article →. The perks of being a classical dancer and other things. December 7, 2015. Read Article →. Three Pluses and Minuses of Dancing in your Bedroom.
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These 5 contemporary dancers demand you take a YouTube break | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. These 5 contemporary dancers demand you take a YouTube break. June 29, 2015. First published by Catch. There are greater challenges in life and choreography than keeping one’s foot pointed through the course of a dance. In South Asia, as elsewhere, there is a growing number of performers who recognise this. And they are bringing a freshness to contemporary dance. Read the rest of the piece here. The Master of Light. 25 Years of Nrityagram →. You are comm...
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Impressions of the Swiss Contemporary Dance Days 2015 | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. Impressions of the Swiss Contemporary Dance Days 2015. March 9, 2015. Cover Image: Marco Berrettini, Marie-Caroline Hominal and Samuel Pajand in iFeel2. Photo by Marie Jeanson, sourced from the Swiss Dance Days website. I attended the 10. My time at the Swiss Dance Days came towards the end of two months of watching contemporary dance at Ignite! The very first piece I saw, Yasmine Hugonnet’s. Le Recital des Postures,. Later, during a conversation, she sp...
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Grandma Says | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. October 10, 2014. First published in the. Column, Jetwings Magazine, September 2014. Cover Image –. 1943), by Grandma Moses, sourced from http:/ www.wikiart.org/en/grandma-moses/sugaring-off-1943. Scent of a Woman →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Is the Rigorous Imprisonment? | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. Is the Rigorous Imprisonment? January 16, 2015. First published in Ligament Online Dance Journal. Cover image featuring Avantika Bahl, photographed by Rahul Giri. In this opinion piece, Odissi dancer and writer Ranjana Dave looks at her idiom of expression the traditional and that of her peers the contemporary and seeks to explore the meaning of freedom and rigour in dance-making. Dancer poised at the threshold of an empty space, what does freedom mean?
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To Make With Community | arts writing
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Notes on dance, music and culture by ranjana dave. To Make With Community. March 7, 2015. First published in Ligament, an online dance journal, during the Writing on Dance Lab at the Attakkalari India Biennial, February 2015. Cover photo courtesy Ranjana Dave, for Ligament. Taking off from Nithin Manayath’s Wishlist: An Ideal Dance Residency in the Subcontinent, Ranjana Dave, a participant at the Writing on Dance Lab, reflected on the idea of residency and incubation spaces in contemporary dance. Impress...
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Contributors – Global Rasika
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Celebrating dance, celebrating life. Mediating Culture: Contributors August 2016. August 17, 2016. Is an acknowledged exponent of Odissi in Brazil in the last two decades. Her professional background includes classical and modern ballet dance, jazz, yoga, and movement re-education. Duarte teaches Odissi and Yoga at her own studio, Padmaa – Arte e Cultura http:/ www.padmaa.com.br. And http:/ www.narthaki.com/info/rev09/rev714.html. Dr Susil Pani can be reached at raghuclinic@gmail.com. February 1, 2016.
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