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