India Tour 2024 – Varanasi
Triveni Music & Art Center Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, January 10 2024 By Ramya & Arna At our last stop of the India trip in Varanasi, Arna and I each had the opportunity to perform a solo at the Triveni Art…
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India Tour 2024 – Santiniketan
Arthshila Santiniketan Santiniketan, January 7 2024 ‘ISAYA: Life Force’ by Mayur Dance A contemporary Odissi Dance by Mayur, depicting the resilient human spirit, with its power to overcome all types of adversity. The performance encapsulated human resilience amidst disease, war,…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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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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…