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16th Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance WHIRLING STREAMS Goes Global
By: A.A. Cristi Feb. 10, 2017
The 16th Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance: Whirling Streams is dedicated to Sudha Khandwani, Founder and Artistic Director of Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada, who passed away in November of 2016, leaving an extraordinary history of international Indian Dance through her fifteen archived festivals (1993 to 2014). With the passing of Sudha, her sister, acclaimed dancer and choreographer Menaka Thakkar, has agreed to finish the Festival as its Artistic Director with the intention to continue the work of spreading a passion for Indian Dance as an art form.
The Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance, Whirling Streams, starts Tuesday March 28 and runs to Sunday April 2, 2017 at Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre. Tickets will be on sale mid-February. All events on stage at Harbourfront Centre will also be live streamed and performances will be available at select film theatres such as Cineplex during the Festival and available on-line over the internet as well.
Performances: The live and live-streamed Festival will present over 40 dancers from Canada and India and feature the classical and contemporary dance styles of Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kathak, Chhau, and Modern over the course of the six days. Performers include Menaka Thakkar Dance Collective (Toronto), Santosh Nair Sadhya Dance (India), Bhavajan Kumar Dancers (Toronto), and solos by Menaka Thakkar (Toronto), Kasturi Mishra (Ottawa), Sujata Mohapatra (India), Parul Gupta (Toronto), Riya Alika Mittal (Edmonton), Nivedha Ramalingham (Toronto), Monica Shah (Vancouver), Mark Medrano with Roger Sinha (Montreal), Reshmi Chetram (Toronto), and more to be announced.
Retrospective and Symposiums - A "DO NOT MISS" event at the Festival will be a demonstration/symposium on the use of technology for teaching Indian dance on-line, hosted by Menaka Thakkar that takes place on Sunday April 2. This will be followed by a one-hour retrospective film on the history of contemporary Indian Dance through the eyes of past Kalanidhi Festivals. The retrospective will be followed in the afternoon by a Symposium discussion on Contemporary Indian Dance happening in India. FREE ADMISSION to all events.
10am - 12pm Demonstration/Symposium on Technology;
2pm - 3pm Film History Retrospective of Contemporary Indian Dance;
3pm - 5pm Symposium on Contemporary Indian Dance happening in India.
Pre-Festival Events - Leading up to the Festival, Kalanidhi paid tribute to Sudha with live-streamed events on December 18, 2016 and January 22, 2017 that featured memorable performances and new works from past participants, and will do so again on March 5 at Menaka Thakkar Dance Studio at 4:30pm. Encore performances of the Pre-Festival Events are available on the Kalanidhi website at www.kalanidhifinearts.org
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