Contemporary DANCE Workshop

8th September, 5:30 to 7:30 PM
ABOUT PARTH BHARADWAJ
Parth graduated with a distinction in Attakkalari’s Diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media in 2009. His earlier training has been in cinematic dance styles in Delhi.
He is currently a senior dancer in Attakkalari’s Repertory company and performs at shows, corporate launches and cultural events around India. He has a keen interest in Yoga and conducts education outreach programmes in schools and colleges. Parth has performed in For Pina... a specially commissioned site specific performance by Attakkalari. He is also a cast member of Attakkalari's latest multi-media production AadhaaraChakra.

9th September, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
ABOUT SURJIT NONGMEIKAPAM
Surjit Nongmeikapam (Bonbon) was born in Manipur, India. Bonbon has a B.A. in Choreography and has worked with the Natya Stem Dance Kampni and Natya Maya, Bangalore as a contemporary and traditional dancer. Bonbon is trained in Kathak, Kalaripayattu, Manipuri dance, contemporary dance and Thang-Ta, a form of martial arts. He continues to learn many other movement styles from various gurus/mentors. In 2010, he trained under Kolkata Sanved in their 3-month course Dance and Movement Therapy. He was also a dance therapist at H2H, Human to Humane, Imphal during 2009-2013. He has given awareness and dance workshops to several trauma victims in Manipur.
Bonbon is now exploring an interdisciplinary experimental performance art with the physical and emotional in his pieces. He also works with visual artists and filmmakers as collaborators. Some notable dance films he has worked with include, Black Pot and Movement and UNDERLINE.
Bonbon has been to many international and national level artists’ residencies. He has toured and participated in major dance festivals in Switzerland, France, Singapore, Belgium, Japan, USA, Germany, Spain, Portugal, UK and more. He is the Co-Founder/Managing Director of Nachom Arts of Contemporary Movement, Manipur.

ABOUT SURJIT'S WORKSHOP ?
Surjit focused on locating the precise beginning of an action. How do ‘actions’ respond to each other in building a sequence? Surjit’s classes took this sequence apart and traced the beginnings of an action through exercises in isolation that required the mind to focus on a specific part of the body and modulate the intensity of the action.
Later on, it will explore to other dimension of movement focusing on the different part of the body.

VENUE - Sparsh Studio for Performing Arts, 8/1 Esplanade East. Kolkata.
REGISTRATION : +91 8013510836
EMAIL: buoyant.dance@gmail.com