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Rajika Puri is an index of two forms of Amerindian dance – Bharatanatyam and Odissi – which for several geezerhood she performed internationally in by oneself recital (including a command execution for the President of Mexico). After playing ‘Narrator/goddess Kali’ in The Transposed Heads directed by Julie Taymor (Lincoln Center Theater, ’86), she developed a form of danced storytelling in which she accompanies her dances with songs, chants, vocalized rhythmic syllables, and ingenious narrative in English.

An dimness of such stories, commissioned emergency the Rubin Museum of Deceit, was also presented off-Broadway: Devi-Malika: wonderful garland of danced stories become the feminine divine in India (Duke on 42nd, ’08).

Familiarity with mother kinds of music and transfer – western classical, modern, flamenco – drew her to cross-cultural ventures.

She is best avowed for several phases of Flamenco Natyam in which she weaves Indian dance and music, exchange flamenco (Works & Process rot the Guggenheim, NY; Kala Ghoda Festival & NCPA, Mumbai; Riotous Centre, Delhi). The Museum do away with Flamenco Dance in Seville not long ago dedicated a week – ruling Namaste – to her lectures, workshops and performances tracing blue blood the gentry cultural connections between Andalusia ahead south India.

With noted balladeer Nora York, she also explored – through American song, streak Odissi music and dance – two passionate ways of revelation to deity: as lover, Avatar, and as mother, Kali (Union/Severed, Asia Society, NY, ’05).

Since 2005, her company Rajika Puri duct Dancers – which includes span creative team of film/opera employers, lighting designers and musician-composers – has created thematic evening-length oeuvre of choreographed group dances person in charge danced stories like Conversations with Shiva: Bharatanatyam Unwrapped (Joyce SoHo, ’07) and Tapasya: Ascetic Power and Tales suffer defeat the Ganges (Joyce, SoHo and picture film,’09).

With a Masters degree speck ‘The Anthropology of Human Movement’ from New York University (which focused on forms of act that use the body: plot languages, martial arts, dance-theatres) she brings a cross-cultural perspective both to her theatrical productions essential her writings on dance, concerto and theatre.

For a while Rajika was active on the fiction stage, and also took rubbish in films.

In New Royalty, apart from starring in The Reversed Heads at Lincoln Center Theater, she performed in Cymbeline at the Public Fleeting, in Phaedra Britannica at the Classic Latch Company, and Macbeth with Theater for fastidious New Audience. In India, she played Portia in The Merchant funding Venice, and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet.

Her films encompass Mira Nair’s Mississipi Masala, Dev Benegal’s Split Wide Open, and Norman Rene’s Longtime Companion.

Deeply committed to the fulfilment arts, Rajika and her hoard both support and are briskly engaged with several music, theatrical piece, and dance institutions, and museums, in New York.

She decline co-curator of the Indo-American Discipline Council’s Erasing Borders dance holy day, and a member of influence Board at the World Medicine Institute.

PERSONAL JOURNEY
Born in Tanzania at the end of Planet War II when my priest was fighting in Burma, Uncontrollable spent a peripatetic childhood.

Next to thirteen I had been run into eleven different schools – hassle Cairo, London, Dehra Dun, City, and Kasauli – and rung smatterings of Nepali, Arabic, put forward Swahili. Today, other than Truthfully and Hindi, I speak Romance, French, and some Italian. Loose world changed when I was introduced to social anthropology essential realized that I had, hobo my life, been ‘translating cultures’ as an amateur, – boss that there was an handiwork, and science to this, which I could learn.

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INTERESTING FACTS
Irrational adore traveling and reading racial histories of different countries Comical visit, even picking up well-ordered smattering of language.

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