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Wishing you a blessed and inspiring 2012! Whats up?! Kalpana just returned from Chennai, where her student Michelle Sequeira gave a very succesfull Bharatanatyam margam performance at the Brahma Gana Sabha Dance Festival. The theater was full and the audience, filled with connaisseurs, was impressed and appreciative of the quality of dance and choreography! In November Kalpana started her new creation 'Towards Dawn' with Sigue Sayouba and Adonis Nebié, 2 contemporary dancers from Burkina Faso. After a first week in Korzo theater, they continued their work in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at EDIT. And now the creation enters its 3rd phase, back to the home base, in Korzo theater. The piece will premiere at the openingweekend of the Holland Dance Festival, in Korzo theater. 26 and 27 January at 19.30 and on 28 January at 21.00 
Towards Dawn
Kalpana Raghuraman tackles fear and pain head on in the duet Towards Dawn. With two dancers from Burkina Faso, she has made a duet about the survival strategies of modern man. What do you do if you don’t belong? Or if you don’t feel safe or loved? We like to try to find connection and comfort through sex, food, drink and other addictions, but we also find it easy to build up a ‘social’ virtual life. Kalpana combines her Indian background with the movement material of the two dancers, and walks away from this escapist behaviour in a raw and dynamic duet.
Credits:
Choreography and concept: Kalpana Raghuraman ; Dancers: Adonis Nébié, Sigué SayoubaMusic composition: Simone Giacomini ; Light design: Peter Lemmens ; Costume design: Jookje Zweedijk ; Production: Janneke van Stroe/ Korzo Producties ------------ Performances of the community project 'Door de ogen van mijn stad' (through the eyes of my city) were amazing! Wonderful project with 20 Indian dancers from various Indian dance styles who share their worlds and views on their city with you. Audiences were touched and impressed by the performance with both intimate as exuberant moments. 4 nights standing ovation for the hard working dancers - thank you all of the artistic team for making this piece such a success! The CDA-politician Mitra Rambaran was very impressed and has written about the performance saying ' This production proves that amateurs can reach professional level with the help of a professional institution. Kalpana Raghuraman has done a great job. To read the webblog: http://www.mitrarambaran.nl/weblog.php?p=archived&l=14&aid=1516 
For more info www.korzo.nl --------- Beyond Kalpana Raghuraman & Pedro Goucha Gomes 
A leap into each other’s world. The Indian Kalpana Raghuraman and the Portuguese Pedro Goucha Gomes accepted the challenge to realize a genuine encounter between Indian dance and Western modern dance. Goucha created a choreography for Raghuraman, and Raghuraman reciprocated by making a work for a dancer trained in modern dance. Both choreographers come from a strong tradition, and both try to expand on these traditions. A collaboration teeming with inspiration! Toxic Tears
Holy rivers in India are honoured as well as polluted. Through this paradox, the ritual purification that washes clean the souls of the inhabitants, also at the same time damages their bodies with chemicals. With the use of Bharatanatyam and modern dance, Goucha Gomes shows in Toxic Tears how tradition and the modern day meet and clash in this case. Kiss of Life
Raghuraman, who was initiated by her mother into the secrets of the classic Indian temple dance Bharatanatyam, offers with Kiss of Life an alternative for the role models that the contemporary Indian woman is confronted with: the pious, introverted woman, or the Indian version of Barbie. The ‘Black Goddess’ Kali offers an alternative. She is wild and tempestuous, but at the same time gentle and tender. Free of traditional conventions, Raghuraman employs the Bharatanatyam to set a relevant example. Talk & Show
Wed 9 Feb, 20:15 After Talk – Korzo Toxic Tears choreography Pedro Goucha Gomes | performance Kalpana Raghuraman | light design Albert Tulling | Kiss of Life choreography Kalpana Raghuraman | performance Sabina Perry | light design Albert Tulling | sound Peter Lemmens | dramaturgy Klaus Jurgens Beyond is a Korzo production and is financially supported by the Ministry of OCW, Gemeente Den Haag and Fonds Podiumkunsten. ------------ What’s Up?! Since September Raghuraman is officially associate choreographer at Korzo Theater in the Hague! For the coming year she will be collaborating with Korzo on different projects and she is very excited about this prospect. Over the fall, she worked with the Portugese choreographer Pedro Goucha Gomes on the new solo 'Toxic Tears'. And now Raghuraman is finishing the creation of the solo 'Kiss of Life' for Sabina Perry. Both solos will be presented on 8 & 9 February 2011 during the Cadance Festival at the Korzo Theater under the title 'Beyond'. Meanwhile Raghuraman is also setting up a community project with Indian diaspora dancers from The Hague. Together with these dancers, she will be creating a location performance called 'Door de ogen van mijn stad' (Through the eyes of my city).  workshop: door de ogen van mijn stad‘Samen staan we sterker en laten we zien wat we kunnen!’ Zoek je als danser een artistieke uitdaging en wil je op een frisse en nieuwe manier om gaan met je eigen en met andere dansstijlen? Doe dan mee aan de dansproductie Door de ogen van mijn stad van choreografe Kalpana Raghuraman & Korzo producties en pak deze unieke kans om samen te werken met verschillende dansers! Door de ogen van mijn stad wordt een samenspel van uiteenlopende Indiase dansvarianten, neergezet door talenten uit de regio Den Haag. Kalpana Raghuraman bundelt de krachten van deze danstalenten en ontplooit ze tot een stijloverstijgende danscreatie. Voor deze dansproductie is Korzo op zoek naar Indiaas-Hindoestaanse dansers uit de regio Den Haag. Beheers je de basis in een Indiase dansstijl en spreekt het bovenstaande je aan, meld je dan aan voor een workshop op zondag 16 januari 2011 van 14.30 tot 17.00 uur in het nieuwe Korzo theater. Op basis hiervan wordt een selectie gemaakt. De trainingsperiode is van maart t/m mei 2011. Het resultaat wordt van donderdag 19 t/m zondag 22 mei in het nieuwe Korzo theater uitgevoerd.
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