Bhoomika presents Narendra Sharma Festival of Dance at Shri Ram Center, 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 7pm on 11th-13th March 2011

Time : 7:00 pm

Entry : by Free Invitations, Invitations for Narendra Sharma Festival of Dance available from March 7 at :
Rama Color (Khan Market) 24628890
Rama Color (Bengali Market) 23716070
Bhoomika Dance Center, East Delhi (22542716) &
On show days @ Sri Ram Center (Mandi House)

Place : Shri Ram Center for Performing Arts ( SRCPA ), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
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Event Details : Bhoomika's Narendra Sharma Festival of Dance.
11th March : 
1. Metro! Metro!  (40 minutes)
This premiere of new choreography will focus on life around Delhi’s Metro and ways it has brought about profound change in cultural life of the city. Delhi’s Metro is a profound happening in public domain in the capital; has changed ways of commuting; and helped common man to live a more dignified and comfortable life.
Choreography is peppy and upbeat, exploring incidents, episodes and atmosphere around Metro’s daily run. Certain abstract ideas are be portrayed like evolution of wheels and passengers exploring/going through spaces in public areas. Romance, sleeplessness and farcical enactments will elucidate emotive aspects with catchy music and sound bytes of journeys.
Presented by BHOOMIKA
Choreography & music: Bharat Sharma
More information on group/choreographer: www.bhoomikadance.blogspot.com
2. The Game of Dice (50 minutes)
This contemporary dance production explores tradition in innovative ways. Theme revolves around the critical episode in epic ‘Mahabaharat’ when a game of dice between two families decides fate of two competing empires of Kauravas and Pandavas. This game is the core around which the entire epic’s characters and storyline is woven.
Choreography explores ideas around key characters in the plot through different styles and a compelling dramatic structure. Traditional movement vocabulary is explored with modern movements by the dancers, while choreography weaves intricacies of game and its impact on subsequent developments ending into an all out war.
Presented by SADHYA
Choreography: Santosh Nair
More information on group/choreographer: www.sadhya.com
12th March : 
1. Forgetful Pauses (10 minutes)

A dance-video based on a poem by German poet, R. M. Rilke. Two dancers celebrate their romantic relationship yet regret the inevitable transience of it all. Video is an interpretation of live choreography on screen.
Choreography: Tripura Kashyap
Videographer & music: Bharat Sharma
2. Kuch Kshan, Kuch Pal (7 minutes)
This dance is inspired by Indian contemporary and classical dance gestures and postures. These have been strung together to a fast paced rhythm and plotted in various points of space. Choreography consists of multiple abstract images, the exploration of bodylines in movement and fluidity of dancing bodies in space.
Presented by BHOOMIKA
Choreography: Tripura Kashyap
3. Waves (9 minutes)
This solo is based on a poem of Dennis Brutus, South-African poet and activist. The poet articulates that eventually even God cannot exist without either woman or man, much as the ocean cannot exist without its waves, its foam or its spray. The dancer, inspired by poet’s political activism and his creative artistry, reflects on this imagery of human condition and oceanic movements as counterparts.
Dancer & choreographer: Tripura Kashyap
More information on choreographer: www.tripurakashyap.blogspot.com
4. Ek Din Achaanak…  (25 minutes)
A choreography inspired by three poems of Punjabi poetess Amrita Pritam that explores drama of human emotions - of love, loss and longing; but also their power and flight. The work is an exploration of images and emotions of the writer. Chance meetings, moments lodged in memory, sensations caught in layers of the body, missed communications, all evoked in her poetry through words.
Movement vocabulary for choreography stems from Kathak and Contemporary Dance. In structure, choreography consists of group work in unison, short solos, duets and trios to provide variety to spatial orientation of dancers. Multiple interpretations, recitation of the text, combined with dramatic actions will enrich understanding and enjoyment of the poems.
Presented by BHOOMIKA
Choreography: Deepti Gupta
More information on choreographer: www.deeptiguptadance.blogspot.com
5. Yudh Ke Baad  (40 minutes)
This dance production focuses on women, both royal and common, in the Indian epic ‘Mahabharat’ to make an anti-war statement. Gandhari, Kunti and Panchali, each suffered great personal loss in the crossfire of fateful war between two families at Kurukshetra. Choreography explores their grief and guilt, and their individual struggle to come to terms with their feelings.
Other key characters from the epic and day-to-day life create scenes, episodes and plots to relate happenings in contemporary society and history. Movements from different styles will weave through musical interludes from different cultures to convey critical issues that bring about suffering to families, children and women in conflicting situations.
Presented by ANVESHNA DANCE THEATRE COMPANY
Choreographer: Sangeeta Sharma
More information on group/choreographer: www.anveshanadance.blogspot.com
13th March :
1. Gandhi is Alive! (40 minutes)
This modern dance production is an attempt to bring fresh meaning to Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas in today's world of race and pace. What would Gandhi do today to make his principles work with a population four times than what he handled, and a psychology far more tamed than he worked with? How relevant is his message of peace?
The choreographer has taken key incidents from Gandhi’s life to give new twist to his thoughts and acts in abstract and ironical moments on stage. Dancers dramatize, move and enact episodes that are taken from day-to-day life to convey meanings in lighter and serious ways. Lively music and soundtracks accompany choreography and the narrative moves forward in a series of acts and movement patterns.
Presented by EXPRESSIONS MODERN DANCE COMPANY, MUMBAI
Choreographer: Sumeet Nagdev
More information on group/choreographer: www.dancewithemdc.com
2. Jatakmala (50 minutes)
Jataka tales of Buddhists expound on wisdom and vagaries of life through a series of narratives. The inter-connected tales, over 540 in number, are written in the format of evolutionary cycle of Buddha’s previous lives, and are closer to contemporary theories on ‘Memory’. These tales touch upon a range of issues of its times – ecology, human relations, wisdom stories and a historical record of its times.
This choreography is an artistic impression of Jataka Tales and elucidates underlying meaning to common ideas that run through the narrative. The choreographer, instead of depicting specific stories, has imbibed images and impressions through his reading of these tales. The unfolding of scenes reflects images of animal worlds, power, conflicts, environment, relationships, dreams and abstract concepts. Props, color schema, design elements interplay to convey meanings through gestures, movement and group compositions.
Choreography, music and design: Bharat Sharma
More information on group/choreographer: www.bhoomikadance.blogspot.com

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Bhoomika presents Narendra Sharma Festival of Dance at Shri Ram Center, 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 7pm on 11th-13th March 2011 Bhoomika presents Narendra Sharma Festival of Dance at Shri Ram Center, 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 7pm on 11th-13th March 2011 Reviewed by DelhiEvents on Sunday, March 13, 2011 Rating: 5

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