Day One Diary: June 7th
Warm up sessions are lead by our faculty tutors, and we start early at 8am with Mythili Prakash’s style of warm up and exercise routine. Preparing the dancers for the day ahead, tailored movements helped to give our participants ideas on some of the basic processes of our professionals. Conditions are humid and oppressive, and it’s clear that the day ahead will be draining physically, as well as a mental and spiritual challenge!
There are five core groups at Dance India Asia Pacific and after the morning warm up, our school split into small groups, and spread out to their own corners of the Goodman Arts Centre campus:
The first workshop is on Dance and Nature, by Lakshmi Vishwanathan
A core technique class in the morning for all participants, is followed by a repertoire class, in which we begin to share ideas on a piece of dance through which they can channel their learning. One highlight of the day was a dance workshop for a group of wonderfully energetic young students, all at very early stages and from 5 years old upwards. As part of the Teachers Training Course, the Dhananjayans taught our participants through a live practical example of how to capture the interest, attention and enjoyment of very young Bharatnatyam students, through theatre, interaction and storytelling. The first workshop of Dance India, on “Dance and Nature” was delivered by Lakshmi Vishwanathan, in which she shared her ideas on how dancers can extend and apply Abhinaya of the elements and our natural surroundings to help tell stories and portray emotions.
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Dance India participants are from all over Singapore and from other parts of Asia too. Find out more about one of them each day with a quick Participant Profile here on the #DIAP14 blog!