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India Tour 2024 -Kolkata

Children’s Little Theatre Kolkata, January 5 2024 By Adithi & Jiyon At our first stop in Kolkata, Jiyon and I both had the opportunity to perform at a venue called CLT (Children’s Little Theatre). From the day after we arrived…

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Maya: the Illusionist

It was wonderful to have so many of you with us for our virtual production Maya: the Illusionist, produced with generous support from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Through this program, our intention was to introduce viewers to an…

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Flute in the Thunder

Over the summer, Mayur students participated in the RagaLabs fellowship under IndianRaga. This piece is set to “Bojre Tomar Bansi” (or Flute in the Thunder), written by Rabindranath Tagore and rendered here by Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta; the piece was choreographed for…

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Behind the Poses

We hope you all are doing well in quarantine. While it doesn’t look like we are going to go back to normal any time soon, I am happy to bring to you an informative article about two unique Odissi poses. …

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Age of COVID-19

I am pleased to bring to you a timely article regarding the current COVID-19 crisis and its effects on dance classes at Mayur. It has been over five weeks since Mayur’s dance classes shifted to be held over Zoom. While…

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Community Events

Mayur’s director is one of the founding members of Indian Dance Educators’ Association (IDEA); since 1995, this organization has helped establish Indian Classical dance as a serious art form in the Washington Metropolitan Area, and has offered organizational support to…

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DC Area Food Banks

Each holiday season, the Academy students perform at a winter recital. This recital is meant to be a celebration of what the students have learned in the fall semester, and is not ticketed; we invite guests of the event to…

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Shivanjali

For ten consecutive years, both Academy and Company dancers have performed at Shivanjali, a combined effort between a number of Indian Classical dance teachers in the area. Proceeds from this ticketed performance go to various international relief organizations, including the…

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