Sunday June 6, 2 - 3.30pm - Moving Traditions
at "Erasing Borders: Festival of Indian Dance 2010" presented by Indo-American Arts Council and Asia Society.
A thought-provoking discussion with leading dancers, choreographers and scholars who shared their insights into the changing world of Indian dance.
Moderator: Purnima Shah
Keynote Panelist: Richard Schechner (TBC)
Panelists: Anita Ratnam, Chitra Sundaram, Navtej Johar
At: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), NYC

June 4-5, 2010 Toronto, Canada
Anita Ratnam presented SEVENGRACES, a special site specific performance at the Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, for Indance International conference on SOLO DANCE on June 4th.

Saturday, June 5, 2010, 4.00pm - 5.15pm
Roundtable Discussion
The Politics of Solo Dance: Perspectives from India and North America
Location: Theatre (Level B1)
Moderator: Hari Krishnan, Peggy Baker (Peggy Baker Dance Projects,Toronto)
Patricia Beaman (Wesleyan University and New York University)
Denise Fujiwara (Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Toronto)
Anita Ratnam (Arangham Dance Theatre, Chennai, India)
Leela Samson (The Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, India)
Swapnasundari (Kuchipudi Dance Centre, New Delhi, India)

April 5, New Delhi, 7.15 pm
Anita Ratnam performed MA3KA at The Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi.
Presented by Sriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra.
Post performance discussion moderated by renowned critic Shanta Serbjeet Singh.

March 24, 2010, Chennai, 7pm
Anita Ratnam presented MA3KA in Chennai in aid of CANSTOP cancer awareness at Chinmaya Heritage Hall, Harrington Road, Chennai.
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March 18, 2010, Hyderabad
Anita Ratnam performed MA3KA (excerpts) at the University of Hyderabad for Women's Month. Opening of the new Women's Studies department, Sarojini Naidu University Campus

March, 2010
Anita Ratnam and Arangham Dance Theatre performed PANCHAKSHARAM at four Natyanjali temple shrines.
Narrator and TV actor Revathy Sankkaran joined the group for the tour.
March 11: Tiruvarur
March 12: Nagapattinam and Tirunallar
March 13: Anita Ratnam lighted the lamp at the inauguration of the Kumbakonam Natyanjali and she performed at Tanjavur for the 1000th anniversary of the Brihadiswara temple festival.
March 14: Chidambaram

January 10, 2010 Chennai
Ranga Mandira Trust presented TS PARTHASARATHY MEMORIAL DANCE SEMINAR, at MGR Janaki College for Women, 9.30am to 4.30pm.
- Dance: It's interdisciplinary significance
- Dance music by Dr. N Ramanathan
- Dance sculptures, inscriptions and frescoes by Dr. Balasubramaniam
- Elements of natya by Gayatri Kannan
- Theatrical aspects in dance - excerpts of Ma3Ka by Anita Ratnam
Info: rangamandira@gmail.com

January 7, 2010 Bangalore
The Natya Stem Dance Kampni presented MA3KA by Anita Ratnam - creator & performer, Hari Krishnan - choreographer & Rex- Visual designer. They presented excerpts of this new work & shared the conceptual/ creative process with the audience.
At: The Natya Stem studio, #37, 17th cross, Malleshwaram, Bangalore, 7pm

Matrika-the goddess that lives within us all....
The genesis of the idea for MA3KA came from Anita. She was seriously interrogating the matrix of India’s primary Goddess triad- Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Initially it was to be a contemporary/ traditional musical, choreographic exploration of the Divine Feminine, loosely tying into Anita’s previous works on Goddess mythology, however with major rites-of-passage life experiences in her recent years she felt driven to morph MA3KA into a parallel non-linear storyboard of shifts in personal dynamics those experiences have wrought personally with, within and without her being. Hence, MA3KA in her new avatar will be a fluid, experimental, non-linear, abstract, modern, multi-media dance theatre solo-work, layered on a rich tapestry of warm, nostalgic/familiar traditional text and lyric based contemporary Carnatik music compositions, essentially creating a synergistic marriage of the past, present and future.

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