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| Dancers with a Difference: Monday March 6, 2006 |
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Janaki Patrick
"Nritta-Natya-Rasa in Kathak"
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| Rhythm and abstract dance technique gradually transform into a suggestive hand and body language -- the vocabulary of the storyteller. The empty stage is filled with the illusion of landscape and character. Allusion to the unseen evokes emotion and visions of the divine. |
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| Janaki Patrik has been trained in classical north Indian Kathak by Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj. Her dance company, The Kathak Ensemble & Friends, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2003. With live musical accompaniment the Ensemble performs classical Kathak as well as productions which illuminate Indian culture in relation to American art forms, at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institute and Lincoln Center. The Ensemble's arts-in-education unit, CARAVAN, performs and teaches throughout the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area.
Janaki's training in western classical flute, Merce Cunningham modern dance technique, Kirov school ballet and her study of Russian, Hindi and Sanskrit language and literature contribute to her choreography and its commissioned musical settings.
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