Contemporary-A Fusion Of Eastern & Western Dance Movements

Welcome Dance

Vibrant pieces of music are collated for this item. The flow of the dance shows the triumph of good over evil. Lighted lamps show the purity of goodness. It is usually performed at the start of a performance to welcome people, and to help set the stage for the rest of the dance repertoire.

Call of the Wild

This dance depicts the struggle of mankind between one’s beliefs and emotions, against the reality that surrounds pragmatic mankind. The dancers depict Man and his emotions such as anger, jealousy, lust, greed and miserliness, which do influence him, incessantly. This creative artwork is set to a musical piece by Dreamcatchers, a London based music group, which has experimented with various global music forms.

Ice

Traditional Bharata Natyam movements are creatively choreographed to contemporary music. This item is an excellent example of the versatility of Bharata Natyam, in that it can be woven into any music with rhythmic components. Dancers must have excellent sense of rhythm and melody to suit the musical refrain of this composition.

7th Heaven

This dance portrays a scene of paradise where celestial dancers descend upon Earth, dancing with a beautiful peacock. An highlight of the dance is the use of bells to bring out the rhythm of the musical composition.

Vanthe Maatharam

Each dancer has different moves in this unique item. The beauty of the dance is creativley brought out as dancers remain unrestricted and have the freedom to follow their heart and body through this meaningful piece of music. This particular composition brings out passion in dancers, as a sign of their personal respect for Mother Earth.

Jagath Janani

It is a dance choreography fuses modern dance movements with Indian dance movements, in an effort to expand the vocabulary of Bharata Natyam. Although it is set to a traditional theme, ‘Womanhood’, it takes on several contemporary twists to represent different facets of a woman - living; loving; working; nurturing and being a woman, in the present Century.