Students at Holgate School, Nottingham, UK — November 2005.

Workshops

Sandeep Bodhanker is a highly talented advocate of Indian art and culture. His current research project is on the history and progression of Kuchipudi Nrityam.

His intense desire to spread the appreciation of the art of Kuchipudi has lead him to devise a series of practical workshops, his most recent held at Carlton Television, UK.

As well as covering the background history of the dance form, the workshop introduces the basic steps, the understanding of the music and word meaning, a chance for individual practise, and a dance demonstration by Sandeep Bodhanker.

Exemplary outline of a two hour workshop

• Brief introduction: The Dance and the Artist
• 15 minutes warm-up in the ancient Indian type of stretching called Yoga or Att Yoga
  
• Rhythm: Namaskar with Basics and Fundamental steps
• Expression: Hand Gestures and Imaginations
• Music: Rhythmic patterns with singing
• Scene Improvisation
  
• Summary and Q & A session.

For more information on workshops please contact us.

All types of classical dance are essentially the same- its main aim is in praising the divine, with the same basic components of rhythm, steps & expression, just as all human beings have two eyes, one nose,one heart, and the same rhythm of the heart beat...

Only we human beings have made the dance styles different like we created religions like Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism, Islam...

But in truth all the dances are the same and we are all one with no difference between us. And in the same way no one should say that Kuchipudi is greater than Bharatnatyam or Bharatanatyam is greater than Manipuiri... every dance has its own style and its own value, and every artist has his own creation".

Sandeep Bodhanker