This module offers an introduction to the different techniques of contemporary style of dance. One would emerge with a rich movement vocabulary enabling one to improvise and further choreograph in this genre.
Faculty
Asish Singha is a contemporary movement practitioner. After completing his formal graduation degree, he successfully accomplished his professional dance diploma in Ballet and Contemporary dance under the guidance of Mr. Saurabh Sureka (Director of Buoyant Performing Arts Kolkata) and also achieved a fruitful training in Ballet from Mrs. Nicole Lam, Janet Reed (USA).
1. Introduction of ballet and contemporary dance
2. Horton technique
3. Release technique
4. Martha Graham technique
5. floor work with a special session on animal flow (guest faculty)
Duration: 4 Months
Once a week x 1 hour each
Nov - Dec, Thursday 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Jan - Mar, Friday 6:30pm - 7:30pm
This course offers short term compact workshops on different dance/movement forms with the purpose of experiencing the health benefits (both body and mind) of each form. The body would be made to experience different movement qualities and different ways of exploring the space around it. One would emerge with an enriched movement experience and a better movement vocabulary.
Faculty
Pintu Das is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and fitness instructor from Kolkata. He started his dance career with “Street Form” and “Cinematic Dance”(Bollywood Dance). He is graduated from Rabindra Bharati University on Bharat Natyam in 2010. Alongside he had taken training in contemporary dance from Sapphire Creation Dance Company in 2009. In later times, he was trained on “Mind body centering and Improvisation” by Michael Casanovas of France.
Asish Singha is a contemporary movement practitioner. After completing his formal graduation degree, he successfully accomplished his professional dance diploma in Ballet and Contemporary dance under the guidance of Mr. Saurabh Sureka (Director of Buoyant Performing Arts Kolkata) and also achieved a fruitful training in Ballet from Mrs. Nicole Lam, Janet Reed (USA).
1. Animal flow
2. Dancehall
3. Contemporary
4. Flow Art
Method: Interactive, reflective sessions and art projects
Once a week x 1 hours each
Sundays, 10:30am - 11:30am & 12pm - 1pm
This module offers short term compact workshops on different dance/movement forms with the purpose of experiencing the health benefits (both body and mind) of each form. The body would be made to experience different movement qualities and different ways of exploring the space around it. One would emerge with an enriched movement experience and a better movement vocabulary.
Faculty
Shubha Bangur completed her Masters in Applied Psychology under the University of Calcutta specialising in Industrial Psychology. She completed her PG Diploma in School Counselling and trained in Dance Movement therapy from TISS.
Sangram Mukhopadhyay is an independent and emerging dancer/movement practitioner. His practice emerges from movement training that is experiential and non-institutional and therefore unfolds as a response to contemporary life via text body and movement. Using Whacking/Waacking, a 70s gay club dance style as a primary tool to investigate the gendered lens of performance.
1. Building a body attitude
2. Encouraging self expression through movement
3. Stress release through movement
4. Intricate limb coordination
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The Creative Arts Academy
31/2a Sadananda Road Kolkata – 700026
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Phone Number: +91 9831140988 / +91 9830775677