The Artist
Sangeeta Sharma is a student of the renowned choreographer – the late Pandit Narendra Sharma. An Indian contemporary dancer for over 21 years, she is also a choreographer and is presently the Assistant Director of Bhoomika, a professional dance company. She is an empanelled artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and a recipient of the Junior Fellowship in 1996 and the Senior Fellowship in 2008 from the Department of Culture, Government of India.
She has been performing regularly with Bhoomika's troupe, both in India and abroad. She has also worked collaboratively with filmmakers, visual artists, and theatre directors in choreographing their plays.
Sangeeta Sharma says ..... ......
Creative dance can encourage people to explore, to discover, the numerous wonderful ways, in which their body can move. It can constantly challenge their physical and mental boundaries to reach somewhere beyond...
To me dance is a means of sharing, of achieving and of expressing all types of feelings.Working with professionals and nonprofessionals, with a formal or informal presentation – I began to recognize & develop both aesthetic and social values.
I explored the dynamic interaction between the audience and the performer.
Contemporary Indian Dance is a lifelong commitment for me. It weaves in modern Indian sensibilities. Its whole scenario is passing through the challenges of 21st century. The vocabulary and the settings are changing ...., for example, dancers today are exploring movement disciplines through Yoga, Martial Arts, Chhau etc.
Future plans
Training and choreography
Anveshana
Dance theatre aims to establish a sustained environment for learning and
development in all areas of the arts in addition to dance and theatre. Our
students and workshop participants will constantly be stretched to improvise and
create their own movements and style.
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Dance theatre workshops with teachers, dancers, actors and any art
lovers
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Intense, long term training programs for those who wish to make
dance a full time career under Anveshana Dance Theatre
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Initiations into different dance/ art forms
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Incorporating relevant elements of gymnastics into dance/theatre
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Workshops with poets, writers, light designers, music composers
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Dance/ theatre compositions on different subjects
· A
year (or more) of intense training for students. Their training will
end
with self- choreographed short pieces (solo, duets), which will be
evaluated constructively by an informed audience
Research and long-term goals
We
as a team at Anveshana are constantly looking for ways to reach out to a wide
range of people from different professional and educational backgrounds. We hope
to achieve some long-term goals through consistent research and work on our
methodologies and techniques in contemporary dance and theatre.
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Publish a book on practical contemporary dance methodology for dancers, actors
and teachers, providing techniques and actual exercises for implementation in
their own areas of work
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Work towards a final dream of establishing a National School of Contemporary
Dance
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