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| www.nj.com Indo-American Dance Festival August 10, 2009 by Robert Johnson/The Star-Ledger |
| For the second year in a row, the Indo-American Arts Council is sponsoring a dance festival showcasing India's ancient but continually evolving dance forms. The "Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance" begins Friday, with a tribute to the late Kathak dance scholar Rohini Bhate, at Dance New Amsterdam in New York. An account of Bhate's life and work will follow the 6 p.m. lecture-demonstration "Mathematics and Rhythm," examining these aspects of classical North Indian Kathak dance. Dance New Amsterdam is located at 280 Broadway (entrance on Chambers Street). Tickets are $10 general admission and $7 for students. "Rhythmic Stories," a workshop introducing children to Indian dance, begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, at the Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St. at Seventh Ave. Tickets are $10. Evening dance workshops for adults begin Aug. 18 ($20 per workshop), and a free performance will be offered at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 19, as part of the annual Downtown Dance Festival at Chase Manhattan Plaza.
ancers Preeti Vasudevan and Sridhar Shanmugam perform in response to visual art of the Indian diaspora, at 7 p.m., Aug. 20, in the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th St., 2nd Floor. Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students. For additional information and to purchase tickets, call (212) 594-3685 or visit iaac.us. |
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