South Asian Contemporary Art Amsterdam is very excited to host an interactive dance workshop by Dr Prachi Jariwala on 5th October, Sunday from 16:00 to 18:00, at the gallery.
Dr Prachi is a versatile, graceful and senior Odissi dancer from Mumbai, and an Ambassador of Indian Culture & Heritage - ICCR Empanelled dancer. A dancer at heart with a passion for studying art history, she has a Bachelors, Masters and a Ph.D. in Ancient Indian Culture. She has performed extensively in India as well as on prestigious international platforms. Her skills as a dancer are only matched by her expertise as a teacher!
Dr. Prachi will lead a session, starting with explaining the various facets of Odissi dance and highlighting the grace and grammar of the style. This will be followed by 2 short performance pieces by the artist and will conclude with an open floor to all those who wish to try out some moves!
Art is visual, and performative but most of all it is experiential. In our current show, It’s getting out of hand by Shivangi Kalra, paintings become sites where memory itself is at play, sanguine yet haunting, deeply personal yet uncannily shared. The result is a poetry of remembering and misremembering, where beauty and melancholy entwine… and where what is hidden refuses to remain unseen.
In Dr Prachi’s performance, her stage / manch become a canvas where the dancer’s hands and feet, like brushes on board, create evocative visuals, where the limbs draw and paint in space, and the mind is coerced to (re)interpret the past… drawing the audience to remember locations, relive stories and revisit characters from ancient myth and contemporary reality.
