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May 15, 2000 |
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 Designer dance They've
got the moves. Now they want to share them. Last week, when students of
the Ananda Shankar School for Performing Arts organised a young
choreographers' festival, it was something new for Calcutta. And one could
argue that in the Ananda Shankar school where the dancers constantly
interact with each other, what's to there to learn? Plenty, really. For
one thing, many of the 28 participants have studied dance abroad and had
training in classical forms as well. The result: 10 short, imaginative
pieces that "borrowed from everywhere but kept their Indianness".
Take the one by young Mitali Sarkar, called Collage. In 1998, Sarkar spent
three months at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London studying
"choreology". "I wanted to try something that would draw on
what I picked up there," she says. So the rolls and falls use the
Jose Limon technique, the swings recall the Bartinieff style. Conversation
at the festival typically was, "Let's try the Freeman thing here and
the Tyson thing there." The school has often invited chreographers
like Jacqulyn Buglesi from the Martha Graham School and Jaan Freeman from
the Alvin Ailey Institute for workshops. According to Tanushree Shankar,
the organiser the fest is "a platform for young dancers, so we'll
open it up to school and college kids also". Who knows where the next
Nureyev might come from? -Labonita Ghosh
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