San Francisco
Friday, October 1st, 2010
10:00am – 5:00pm Registration, YBCA Grand Lobby
YBCA Forum
11:00am – 1:00pm Performances
Carnatic Music Performance with Mahesh Swamy, Flute; Krishnu Kumar, Violin; Aditya Prakash, Vocals; and V. Vedakrishnan, Mridangam
Hindustani Classical Music Performance – Jayanta Banerjee (Sitar) with Biplap Bhattacharya (Tabla)
Chhandam School of Kathak
Lasya Dance Company – Artistic Dancer & Principal dancer, Vidhya Subramaniam (Bharatanatyam)
Priya Das, Mallika Gargeya, Janani Narayanan, Kavita Thirumalai, Sushmita Srikanth, Poornima Venkatesh
1:15 – 2:45pm Lunch
2:45pm-3:45pm Lecture Demonstration
The Art behind the Art: Techniques & Traditions of Kathakali Dance with Sadanam Hanikumaran and Troupe
3:45 – 5:15pm Performances
Niharika Mohanty & Vishnu Tattva Das – Odissi
Shila Mehta – Kathak
5:15 – 7:00pm Dinner Break
Yerba Buena Novellus Theater
7:00pm
Invocation – Chitresh Das Dance Company – Kathak
with Debashish Sarkar, vocals; Jayanta Banerjee, sitar; Umesh Mishra, sarangi; Biplap Bhattacharya, tabla
Mythili Prakash – Bharatanatyam
with Smt. Viji Prakash, nattavur; Aditya Prakash, vocals; Krishna Kumar, violin; Mahesh Swamy, flute & moorsing; V. Vedakrishnan, mridangam
Smt. Mahua Mukherjee – Gauriya Nritya
with Ayan Mukherjee; Ruma Dey; Sri Amitava Mukherjee, vocals
Sri Ratikant Mohaptra – Odissi
with Debashish Sarkar, vocals; Jayanta Banerjee, sitar; Umesh Mishra, sarangi; Ekalabya Muduli, mardala (drum).
Smt. Darshana Jhaveri – Manipuri
with L. Anasuya Devi; Jagannath Lairenjam, Pung Cholom; S. Premila Devi, vocals.
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
9:00am – 5:00pm Registration, YBCA Grand Lobby
YBCA Forum
10:00 – 12:00pm Performances
Rasika Kumar (Bharatanatyam)
Sohini Ray (Manipuri)
Anjali Center for the Performing Arts, Founder/Director: Rathna Kumar – Aneesha Srikar, Dr. Sangita Rangala (Bharatanatyam)
Jyoti Rout & Jyoti Kala Mandir College of Indian Classical Arts (Odissi)
12:00 – 1:00pm Lecture Demonstration
Discovering a New Classical Form: Guariya Nritya with Smt. Mahua Mukherjee
1:00 – 2:00pm Panel Discussion: What is a Guru?
With V.P. & Shanta Dhananjayan, Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri, Pt. Bachanlal Mishra, Smt. Darshana Jhaveri, and Sri Ratikant Mohapatra.
2:00 – 3:30pm Lunch
3:30 – 5:00pm Performances: Youth
Sindhu Ravuri (Kuchipudi)
The Ali Akbar College of Music Youth Tabla Ensemble – Maansi Desai, Eman Essa, Ram Kaundinya, Omar Ali
Chhandam Youth Dance Company (Kathak) – Ashyka Dave, Sonali Toppur, Jasmine Balsara, Ritika Pai, Ria Parab, Aahana Sahai, Monica Chitre, Aditi Amlani, Sneha Patkar, Leela Amladi, Simran Arora, Neha Bhansali, Gauri Bhatnagar, Aditi Maheshwari, Athena Nair, Shruti Pai, Richa Patwardhan, Mayuka Sarukkai, Anushka Shah, Kritika Sharma
5:00 – 5:30pm Panel Discussion: What is the future for Indian Classical Dance?
With youth panelists Ashyka Dave, Sonali Tappur, Sindhu Ravuri, Maansi Desai, Eman Essa.
5:30 – 7:00pm Dinner Break
Yerba Buena Novellus Theater
7:00pm
Chitresh Das Dance Company in Sita Haran (world premiere) – Kathak
Artistic Director, Choreographer, Composer – Pandit Chitresh Das *
Charlotte Moraga – Bali & Ravan; Seibi Lee – Marich & Hanuman; Rachna Nivas – Surupanaka & Sugreev; Anjali Nath – Sita & Tara; Rina Mehta – Ram; Antara Bhardwaj – Lakshman; Labonee Mohanta – Golden Deer & Angad; Kasturi Mishra – Jatayu & Bard; Cimeron Ahluwalia – Ruma; Darlene Dhillon & Ashyka Dave – Khara & Dushan;
V.P. & Shanta Dhananjayan – Bharatanatyam
with Babu Parameswaran, vocals; Krishna Kumar, violin; V. Vedakrishnan, mridangam
Sadanam Harikumaran & Vijayan Gopinathan – Kathakali
with Vatapotta Devadasan, maddalam (drum); Karthik Menon Aikkara, violin; Karimpuzha Padmalayam Ramakrishnan, chenda (drum); N.N. Ramamohanan, vocals; Maravancheri Thekkemana Satheesan (make-up)
* Sita Haran Score: Pandit Chitresh Das, Composer; Jayanta Banerjee, Arrangement; Ramesh Mishra, Sarangi; Jayanta Banerjee, Sitar; Debashish Sarkar, Vocals; Abhijit Banerjee, Tabla; Somnath Roy, Ghatam & Effects; Subashish Deb, Violinist; Kaushik Mukherjee, Sarod; Jayanto Chatterjee, Flute; Pradeep Roy, Recitation; Shankar Mehta, Verse Composition
Original Score for Sita Haran by Dr. George Ruckert
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
9:00 – 5:00pm Registration, YBCA Grand Lobby
YBCA Forum
10:00 – 10:30am Performances
Kalanjali – Vidya Sundaram, Tanusree Sreedharan and Priya Ravindhran (Bharatanatyam)
With Babu Parameswaran, vocals; Krishna Kumar, violin; V. Vedakrishnan, mridangam
10:30 – 11:30am Lecture Demonstration (Kathak)
Living a Legacy with Gretchen Hayden and Chhandika
11:30pm – 12:30pm Panel Discussion: Who does Indian Culture Belong To?
With Gretchen Hayden, Rasika Kumar, Shila Mehta, Kasturi Mishra, Seema Mehta, and Niharika Mohanty.
12:30 – 2:00pm: Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:00pm Performances
Pt. Bachanalal Misra (Kathak – Lucknow Gharana)
3:00 – 4:00pm Panel Discussion: What’s the Story? Theater and Indian Classical Dance
with V.P. & Shanta Dhananjayan, Sadanam Harikumaran, Sri Ratikant Mohapatra, Smt. Mahua Mukherjee, and Charlotte Moraga.
4-6pm Dinner Break
Yerba Buena Novellus Theater
6:00pm
Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri & Nilanjan Chaudhuri - Tabla Solo
With Debashish Sarkar, harmonium
Chitresh Das Dance Company performs Shabd – Kathak
Charlotte Moraga, Seibi Lee, Rachna Nivas, Anjali Nath, Rina Mehta, Antara Bhardwaj, Labonee Mohanta, Kasturi Mishra
Chhanda Bhava—The Moods of Rhythm (world premiere) featuring Pt. Chitresh Das (Kathak); Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri, lead percussionist on tabla; Pt. Bhavani Shankar on pakhawaj, and Poovalur Srinivasan on mridangam.
With Debashish Sarkar, vocals; Jayanta Banerjee, sitar; Umesh Mishra, sarangi
9:30 -11:00pm – Closing Night Party
* artists and program subject to change
