Workshops
Founder
Director of ANVESHANA DANCE THEATRE, Sangeeta Sharma, an Indian
contemporary dancer and choreographer with an experience of over 23
years in the field of the Indian & western dance. Sangeeta’s
choreographed pieces demonstrate her unique creative and innovative
style to bring up issues facing the society, journey into the internal
struggle and conflicts of each individual, share of her own spiritual
search with the audience or even dwell into the interconnectedness
between theatre and dance
For the last
15 years, Sangeeta has been experimenting in dance techniques with
village school children in Andretta (Himachal Pradesh), bringing out
their potential by making use of the limited resources available in
the area. With a strong base in street theatre, she has been exploring
the connection between dance and theatre, the audience and performer
through her own choreographic work and through workshops in Himachal
with actors, supported by the Sangeet Natak Academy (2006) and
National School of Drama (2007,08). Apart from the regular dance
classes in Triveni Kala Sangam presently she is taking new production
oriented workshop With Bhoomika dancers.
In 2008,
Sangeeta was awarded the Senior Fellowship from the Department of
Culture, Government of India. She has worked collaboratively with
filmmakers, visual artists, theatre practitioners and Directors in
choreographing their plays.
Sangeeta's workshops give us a glimpse of the many paths she has traversed on her journey.
Asssam Movement
Workshop – An experience from 7th May to 21st May 2009
Andretta movement
class for actors/Dancers/ teachers JUNE 7 – 21
ACTIVITIES
APRIL 2009
National School of
Drama Delhi. Play Choreography (King Lear)
APRIL 2009
Performance & the
Printed Word – Delhi. World Dance Day Celebrations Organised by Sangeet
Natak Akademi and Federation of Publishers
MAY 2009
Jamuguri- Asssam,
Production oriented movement workshop of 15days for actors . Organised
by National School of Drama
JUNE
2009 Andretta
( Himachal Pradesh)
Intense theatrical movement workshop organized by National school of
drama
July 2009
Bhoomika Dance troupe
(Delhi)New production - choreography)
July 2009
Triveni Kala Sangam –
Delhi. Regular Contemporary Dance Classes
July 2009
East Delhi – I.P.
extension permanent Reh space of Anveshana Dance Theatre
The path from stillness to movement with the actors of the Sri Ram Centre.
A dance theatre production that created a bridge between the performer and the audience at The Attic in Nov 2007 in Delhi, exploring dance from balcony to green room, green room to stage, stage to staircase.
Between students, teachers and actors at the Andretta High School in Himachal, supported by Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2005 and the National School of Drama in 2006
An interpretation of the architecture of a mud theatre in the village of Andretta, and experimentation over ten years in dance techniques with village children with their limited resources.
In 1998, Prithvi Ke Garbh Mein, selected by the Department of Culture, for the Fiftieth Anniversary of India's Independence.
At the workshops of Laban & Limon in USA in 1993 as part of the International Choreographers Residency Workshop.
Anweshana is a continuous process..of past, of present...
Anweshana, whole-heartedly dedicated to the future....
Anweshana, which is going towards a dream...going in all the four directions......
A new horizon....a new awakening around and within us...
It intends to reach out to all, no matter what is the platform....our stage could be the middle of a road or even the moon....
It would be vast..yet steady...maintaining its existing boundaries and limits, or creating new ones....
It is love, it is sharing, it is not judgmental, it is unconditional.....
People from all walks of life come and take back to their respective lives the experiences they learn here....
It knows all rules, reveres the old ones yet strives to break away from bonds.....
People can come, learn about these boundaries, incorporate them in their own personality and then create new styles....
Dance as art, religion, social custom, and political action will be examined as evidenced in many human societies.Students are introduced to dance anthropology, as examples are drawn from West Africa, Brazil, Japan, India, Bali . . . . .
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