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Walk for Live and Bhoomika dance Festival Delhi |
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2012-01-31
"So the news feed returns. and will be continued ASAP!!
I am in Delhi again, after balmy Mumbai, and magical Goa, where batteries were seriously charged in preparation for the February madness.
Sun 5th: am helping out the CanSupport organization in their "Walk for Life", a fundraiser to help people in terminal stages of cancer receive palliative care.
Some personal stories about this event coming up soon, and especially "apres coup", after the event.
Rehearsal pix of ASAP at Bhoomika by Roby Das
But one big cat I am allowed to let out of the bag now is that I have choreographed a 23 minute piece for 8 wonderful young dancers of the Bhoomika Creative Dance Company here in New Delhi.
The adventure with these kids has been truly heArtwarming and some videos about "the making of" will be posted after the festival.
India is usually the country I come back to when the western world moves too far too fast; to slow down, breathe, look around and be blessed by magical moments at every corner.
Well things were moving at such speed here in Delhi, that the Mumbai/Goa trip became vital, to do just that; reconnect with the elements, relax, recharge to come back to rehearsals with more energy and passion:
This new work will be premiered as part of the Bhoomika Contemporary dance Festival, held in the capital, New Delhi, at the Shri Ram Center, from the 14th till the 17th Feb:
my new piece "ASAP" will premiere on Feb. 15th and will be the second piece on a triple bill.
If you are in Delhi, please Come and see us!!!
Some detailed program notes about the piece follow and will elaborate soon: wrote a whole notebook about it on the flight to Mumbai.
ASAP
4 sketches 4 Bhoomika
Rehearsal pix of ASAP at Bhoomika by Roby Das
choreography: Sheela Raj (India/UK/France)
performed by: Meenakashi Chopra, Himani Sharma, Neha Gupta, Pratima Dhankhar, Vijesh Sharma, Rahul Goswami, Pradeep Chand Sati, Sanjay Swaraj
1. IKARUS
music Friedrich Glorian (Germany)
"Free Flight" loosely inspired by the Icarus myth
2. Sara 'n' Merce
music Christof Dienz (Austria)
inspired by Sara Rudner's exquisite movement quality, and Merce Cunningham's iconic photo from his solo to John Cage's "Child of Tree".
subtitled: "Endangered Species": symbolic of our destruction of the natural habitat for all living species, including humans.
3. RITMO INFERNO
music Suchet Malhotra (India) to a score by Sheela Raj,
"The relentless passage of time":
a short extract from a solo "PanchaLila" I created for the Avignon Festival in 1980.
Music was composed and played live then by Zakir Hussain.
This extract for 8 dancers explores canon/delay/retrograde/repetition etc.
4. CHASSE CROISE
Zither maestro Christof Dienz's music "Dances Us":
a celebration of pure movement and of the 8 dancers who shared energy, huge talent, hard work, fun and much love during the making of ASAP.
Rehearsal pix of ASAP at Bhoomika by Roby Das
You kids Rock! And thanks Bharat for bringing us together on this singular adventure:
see you at the show!
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XOver DiaLogs in MusicDance |
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2011-02
good morning from delhi where we are cooking up this performance and also sharing the transformative power of dance with children in the slums here..
"the heartLight collective" was born last night, on poornima..this is an open pool of cross disciplinary artists committed to making heArt...i am back to choreography after 21 years!! scary but wonderful and especially when everything comes full circle...come see us in delhi
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Twyla Tharp's Torelli & the Dance Center Chicago |
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2008-03
Winter days were pulling into the core and preparation for a special project at the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago , where Bonnie Brooks invited Sheela to re-stage and coach an old Twyla Tharp piece from 1971, Torelli with the dancers of the RPW (repertory performance workshop). This was a "blast from the past" for Sheela, who had left the Company and NYC in the early 70's.
watch video here
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2007-12
the next stop was Udine where Sheela and Friedrich Glorian had their annual date with the diploma students of the Accademia Nico Pepe, directed by Claudio de Maglio. Claudio feels that this workshop creates a deep bond between the students and challenges them to communicate on a plane beyond words and intellectual concepts: to take responsibility for each other's well being and to dissolve the barriers of competition leading them to an awareness of emulation instead.
Our workshop ended with a master class in the 5 Elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air and their application in the Moving Breathing Acting body/mind/soul.
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2007-11
Early Nov. Nadesh joined Sheela to prepare her 3 min solo for the Mayim
project. Sheela was unfortunately not able to create a new choreography
due to lack of time, so she chose to use elements of the Indian dance
forms Nadesh already knew and weave them into a coherent fabric that
could mesh with the "Folklore" section that opened the 2nd half of this
3 hour program.
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2007-11
Some days later, Pauline returned to Ulm for the Totentanz project with Sheela as artistic director and choreographic guide to the improvisational material/spacing/dynamics etc...
More under www.2av.de/totentanz
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India & HH The Dalai Lama |
2007-10-03
Soon after her return to Europe, Sheela left for India, where she had
the enormous privilege of personally meeting HH. the Dalai Lama at his
Dharamshala home. With blessings galore from HH for the project Mayim
Mayim and the 33 young dancers who were due to participate , and for
the extended Moving Breath family, she returned to Germany mid Oct.
While in Delhi, Sonali Mathur Prasad organized a mini workshop where Sheela shared the Moving Breath techniques with a young dance collective Gati.
More under video Gati (coming soon...)
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Post Dakini's Vision in Israel |
2007-09-08
The L.A.Y gathering featuring "Dakini's Vision" in Israel in Sept. 2007
was a deeply empowering moment for the 55 women who gathered under the
protective branches of the 400 year old Alon (indigenous Oak) tree in
Kerem Maharal to share magical moments in space time.
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2008-04
April 6th 2008 - New Moon and spring in the air... - 5.30 a.m. birdsong -
for reasons beyond our control, the news feed came to a grinding halt in October...
sincere apologies to our friends worldwide who have logged on hoping to follow us on our journeys... here is an update...
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Lunar Artz Yoga in Israel 7-9 September |
2007-09
L.A.Y. (Lunar Artz Yoga) gathering will take place in Israel in an eco-friendly retreat center in the Mount Carmel nature reserve, on the week-end of 7-8-9 Sept. We will focus on practicing "Dakini's Vision," the moving yoga sequence I choreographed, and dedicate to the nurturing and healing power of the feminine spirit. Sheela will be assisted by Pauline Reibell for this gathering.
contact Irgun Morei Yoga Teachers Association
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