Come join UCSB’s Dance and Theater department for a day of scholarly and artistic conversation around the 3-day event, Bells of Change: the Dance of India Festival.
Schedule below:
Bells of Change
Dance, Film and Contemporary Performance from India
Friday, January 16, 2014
HSSB Ballet Studio
8:30 Coffee and Bagels
9:00 Dean Majewski
Welcome
9:05 Ninotchka Bennahum
Opening Remarks
9:10/15 Pallabi Chakravorty Categories Fall Apart: Indian Dance Revolutions
9:50 – 10:00 Question & Answer
10:05 – 11:00 Artist/Scholar Roundtable
Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda, Pallabi Chakravorty, Anurima Banerj, Amrapali-Anjani Ambegaokar
Moderator: Christopher Pilafian
11 – 12:00 Anurima Banerji
Keynote: Nrityagram: Tradition in Transgression
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch served
Film Showing: Nrityagram: For Love of Dance (2010) Directed by Nan Melville
(27 minutes)
1:00 – 1:45 Mary Hancock
In Conversation with Filmmaker Aparna Sharma
Film Excerpts: Kamakha: Through Prayerful Eyes (2013)
2:00 – 2:30 Anthony Shay
Paper Title: Dirty Dancing Courtesans from Persia to India
2:30 – 3:00 Swati Chattopahdyay
Paper Title: Anomalous Spaces: Representations of Dance Performance in Colonial India
3:00 – 4:00
Mother-Daughter Guru Traditions: Tradition in Transition
Participants: Vijayalakshmi-Mythili Prakash, Amrapali-Anjani Ambegaokar,
Vijayalakshmi-Bharati Shivaji
Moderated by: Kay Talwar
4:00 – 5:00
Critical Topics in South Asian Performance and Indian Dance and Film
Scholar/Artist Panel
Participants: Anurima Banerji, Pallabi Chakravorty, Swati Chattopadhyay, Aparna Sharma
Moderated by Sevi Bayraktar (UCLA World Arts & Cultures, Graduate Student)
5:00 – 6:30 Reception in Foyer of PAT
6:30 – 8:30 Indian Dinner – Kay Talwar