Navatman Dance 2014 Season

Featuring 4 different programs including a World Premiere

 

June 26 – 29, 2014 at Sage Theater, 711 7th Ave

Tickets: $15 – $45 at www.navatman.org/tickets / Weekdays 11am – 5pm: 212 564 4895

 

Navatman Dance is a Bharatanatyam company based out of Manhattan that takes the vocabulary of the art form as precisely as it can, and innovates within it, altering traditional movements, moods, and music to create work that audiences can ultimately connect with on an emotional level.

 

True to the style of Navatman Dance works, each program combines a high level of technical difficulty and synchronization, which explores the boundaries of Bharatanatyam and its dancers. Each piece also features another Navatman Dance trademark of simultaneous nritta (pure dance) and abhinaya (expression and mime), which are typically kept separate in Bharatanatyam.

 

The innovation these programs prize does not lie purely within its conceptual interpretation of mythology, but also in the power of its storytelling through entire group performances – a rare occurrence in Bharatanatyam, which often features solo or principal focused choreographies. As an all-female troupe, the dancers are also forced to explore gender duality in their dance.

 

We invite you to join us in exploring your individual experience with traditional Indian dance, in an intimate atmosphere, which will take you back to days of old when Bharatanatyam was performed for kings and nobles in courts and temples.

 

 

Program Information

 

Krishna and The Lost Boys

June 26th (World Premiere) and June 28th, 2014

Explore the human side of Krishna in his butter stealing escapades, through his adventurous youth, as he falls in love, and myriad episodes in this World Premiere.

 

Guru Dakshina

June 27th, 2014

Featuring: Sahasra Sambamoorthi and Bharathi Penneswaran, with Live Orchestra

These Bharatanatyam dancers bring together their contrasting backgrounds for the first time as a full-fledged margam duet, to share with us choreographies from their gurus, in a tribute to their roots. This program includes works by Justin McCarthy and Ramya Ramyanaran.

 

Dance of the Animals: Family Program

June 29th, 2014

Dialogue supplements this family show to weave together antics of the animal kingdom in a performance for audience members of all ages.

 

Dance of the Animals

June 29th, 2014

Dolphins chattering, oxen stamping, feathers unraveling. Navatman Dance juxtaposes behavior from the animal kingdom within the forest to that within our concrete jungle, from dating at the watering hole to being caught in the rat race.