Leela Samson Workshop
Work in an intimate setting with the dance pioneer Leela Samson
Venue
Maryland Youth Ballet (MYB)
926 Ellsworth Drive,
Silver Spring, MD
Sunday 10-25 from 6-9 pm at (MYB)
Monday 10-26 from 8:30-10:30 pm at (MYB)
Tuesday 10-27 Venue TBA
Wednesday 10-28 from 8:30-10:30 pm at (MYB)
Participants will learn one item and then Ms Samson will explore the dynamics of group choreography by adapting the dance item taught into group choreography. For advanced dancers of ANY classical dance form of India. Bharata Natyam knowledge is useful.
Cost of workshop $250 if paid before 10-21-09 and $300 thereafter. Only online payments will be accepted.
Samson is among India’s most dynamic and technically brilliant dancers, an outstanding representative of Kalakshetra, the famed institute for the classical arts founded by the late Rukmini Devi Arundale on the Chennai ocean front. She joined Kalakshetra as a young child and her formative years were spent in imbibing the nuances of Bharata Natyam and related arts at the feet of celebrated gurus.
Her personal style is unostentatious, serene and characterized by an impeccable technique that blends geometrical precision with vibrancy and an unfettered ease. Her rhythmic acumen is apparent in dance compositions containing varied and challenging percussion patterns. Among the many honours conferred on her, Leela Samson was awarded the prestigious Padmashri by the President of India in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the art of Bharata Natyam as well as the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award instituted by the apex cultural body of the Government of India. Currently, she is the Director of Kalakshetra, Chennai, the oldest dance/theater institution in India.