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Creating Dance That Resonates ADITI MANGALDAS Dance Company BioAditi Mangaldas is a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak. With extensive training under the leading gurus of Kathak, Shrimati Kumudini Lakhia and Pandit Birju Maharaj, Aditi is today recognised for her artistry, technique, eloquence and characteristic energy that mark every performance. Besides dancing and choreographing classical productions, both solo and group, she has broken new ground by using her knowledge and experience of Kathak as a springboard to evolve a contemporary dance vocabulary, infused with the spirit of the classical. Considered a maverick in India, she has consistently broken ground, unafraid to confront social and present-day concerns. She heads the Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company – The Drishtikon Dance Foundation. Show Highlights (0:02:23) A love story between a mature older woman and a younger man: Upcoming Duet with Akash Odedra (0:07:22) Lost In The Forest: expressing the anxiety and isolation felt during the pandemic (0:08:44) Working with Shubha Mudgal for the production (0:09:34) Using empty frames to show movement in time (0:13:32) Performing for the first time in India post Pandemic: 2022 Jaipur Literary Festival (0:15:09) Uncharted: What/Who are we looking for? (0:17:01) Building and nurturing relationships (0:19:26) Getting pregnant with your work (0:21:24) Keeping things open to interpretation based on people's own life experiences (0:22:25) Creating art that resonates with you for years (0:24:32) The elements of storytelling (0:25:34) How far in history do you go back to call something traditional (0:28:32) The importance of not getting complacent (0:29:48) The process of getting to dance on a world stage (0:31:08) Playing the dual roles of a dancer and choreographer (0:32:50) The importance of working with a diverse set of dancers (0:34:11) Wearing multiple hats: dancer, choreographer, artistic director (0:36:21) Cross training: Kalari/Yoga/Contemporary Dance (0:37:43) The meaning of Kathak sensibilities (0:40:39) Giving a direction to your artistic endeavors (0:42:16) Collecting thoughts, ideas, images (0:44:38) Is time reversible: Timeless (0:47:41) Using Rhythm to portray time (0:51:55) How do you feel about being an inspiration (0:56:19) Declining the National SNA award for creative/experimental work (0:57:10) Portraying raw pain and anguish (0:58:59) Having a responsibility as a dancer (1:00:21) Double Standards

<h1>Creating Dance That Resonates</h1> <a href="http://www.aditimangaldasdance.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADITI MANGALDAS Dance Company</a> Bio Aditi Mangaldas is a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak. With extensive training under the leading gurus of Kathak, Shrimati Kumudini Lakhia and Pandit Birju Maharaj, Aditi is today recognised for her artistry, technique, eloquence and characteristic energy that mark every performance. Besides dancing and choreographing classical productions, both solo and group, she has broken new ground by using her knowledge and experience of Kathak as a springboard to evolve a contemporary dance vocabulary, infused with the spirit of the classical. Considered a maverick in India, she has consistently broken ground, unafraid to confront social and present-day concerns. She heads the Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company – The Drishtikon Dance Foundation. Show Highlights (0:02:23) A love story between a mature older woman and a younger man: Upcoming Duet with Akash Odedra (0:07:22) Lost In The Forest: expressing the anxiety and isolation felt during the pandemic (0:08:44) Working with Shubha Mudgal for the production (0:09:34) Using empty frames to show movement in time (0:13:32) Performing for the first time in India post Pandemic: 2022 Jaipur Literary Festival (0:15:09) Uncharted: What/Who are we looking for? (0:17:01) Building and nurturing relationships (0:19:26) Getting pregnant with your work (0:21:24) Keeping things open to interpretation based on people's own life experiences (0:22:25) Creating art that resonates with you for years (0:24:32) The elements of storytelling (0:25:34) How far in history do you go back to call something traditional (0:28:32) The importance of not getting complacent (0:29:48) The process of getting to dance on a world stage (0:31:08) Playing the dual roles of a dancer and choreographer (0:32:50) The importance of working with a diverse set of dancers (0:34:11) Wearing multiple hats: dancer, choreographer, artistic director (0:36:21) Cross training: Kalari/Yoga/Contemporary Dance (0:37:43) The meaning of Kathak sensibilities (0:40:39) Giving a direction to your artistic endeavors (0:42:16) Collecting thoughts, ideas, images (0:44:38) Is time reversible: Timeless (0:47:41) Using Rhythm to portray time (0:51:55) How do you feel about being an inspiration (0:56:19) Declining the National SNA award for creative/experimental work (0:57:10) Portraying raw pain and anguish (0:58:59) Having a responsibility as a dancer (1:00:21) Double Standards

TKP 088: Aditi Mangaldas

In this episode Lou spent some Downtime with Aditi Mangaldas, a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak, based in Delhi, India. Aditi runs her own rep company -  Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company – The Drishtikon Dance Foundation. It is here that she experiments with what she calls ‘contemporary danced based on Kathak’. Her productions, for example Inter_rupted and Within, have toured the world to great acclaim.Lou zoomed into Aditi's life while she was in the countryside outside of Bombay towards the end of June 2020. They had a far-reaching conversation that covered the Covid situation there, the uber-difficult task of supporting artists when the sector itself is not organised , and the digital work she is creating to raise funds to support the artistic community. They also talked about Aditi’s relationship with classical Kathak, what her style of  'contemporary dance based on Kathak' means, what her processes look like and why she turned down the celebrated National Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2013. Quick fire questions were, on this occasion, provided by Aditi and Lou’s mutual friend and collaborator Aakash Odedra.http://www.aditimangaldasdance.com/index.php

In this episode Lou spent some Downtime with Aditi Mangaldas, a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak, based in Delhi, India. Aditi runs her own rep company -  Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company – The Drishtikon Dance Foundation. It is here that she experiments with what she calls ‘contemporary danced based on Kathak’. Her productions, for example Inter_rupted and Within, have toured the world to great acclaim.Lou zoomed into Aditi's life while she was in the countryside outside of Bombay towards the end of June 2020. They had a far-reaching conversation that covered the Covid situation there, the uber-difficult task of supporting artists when the sector itself is not organised , and the digital work she is creating to raise funds to support the artistic community. They also talked about Aditi’s relationship with classical Kathak, what her style of  'contemporary dance based on Kathak' means, what her processes look like and why she turned down the celebrated National Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2013. Quick fire questions were, on this occasion, provided by Aditi and Lou’s mutual friend and collaborator Aakash Odedra. <a href="http://www.aditimangaldasdance.com/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.aditimangaldasdance.com/index.php</a>

Downtime with Aditi Mangaldas

Jasmin Vardimon

Growing up in an Israeli kibbutz taught choreographer Jasmin Vardimon all about group dynamics, but she came to dancing relatively late, aged 14. Now artistic director of the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company in the UK, her visually stunning and exciting performances are inspired by universal themes such as brutality and justice, filtered through the personal experience of her and her dancers. Jasmin says that leading a production is like bringing up a child - at a key point you need to be able to let go and trust the dancers to do their best. Aditi Mangaldas was trained in the classical Indian dance form of kathak from the age of five. Her Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company, Drishtikon Dance Foundation, now performs all over the world.  With its fast footwork and rhythmic complexity, kathak gives Aditi a sense of feeling timeless, of being bound to the ground.  She believes that there is room for the dance form to evolve and in some of her productions fuses kathak with contemporary dance.  Aditi still performs on stage, and on those days says she has to become just one of the company.(L) Aditi Mangaldas. Credit: Dinesh Khanna(R) Jasmin Vardimon. Credit: Ben Harries

Growing up in an Israeli kibbutz taught choreographer Jasmin Vardimon all about group dynamics, but she came to dancing relatively late, aged 14. Now artistic director of the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company in the UK, her visually stunning and exciting performances are inspired by universal themes such as brutality and justice, filtered through the personal experience of her and her dancers. Jasmin says that leading a production is like bringing up a child - at a key point you need to be able to let go and trust the dancers to do their best. Aditi Mangaldas was trained in the classical Indian dance form of kathak from the age of five. Her Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company, Drishtikon Dance Foundation, now performs all over the world. With its fast footwork and rhythmic complexity, kathak gives Aditi a sense of feeling timeless, of being bound to the ground. She believes that there is room for the dance form to evolve and in some of her productions fuses kathak with contemporary dance. Aditi still performs on stage, and on those days says she has to become just one of the company. (L) Aditi Mangaldas. Credit: Dinesh Khanna (R) Jasmin Vardimon. Credit: Ben Harries

Choreographers: Aditi Mangaldas and Jasmin Vardimon