Started in 2017, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)’s Pravaha Dance Festival showcases new choreographies in Indian dance. Bharatanatyam dancers Geeta Chandran, Lata Pada, Malavika Sarukkai and Vaibhav Arekar, kathak dancers Shama Bhate and Uma Dogra, Odissi dancer Madhavi Mudgal and Mohiniyattam dancer Mandakini Trivedi are among the renowned performer-choreographers to have presented recitals at the event.
Pravaha Dance Festival was last held in December 2022. Mumbai-based performing arts institute the Guru G. V. Ramani Natya Kala Foundation, founded by dancer Gayatri Subramanian, presented 'TenTenaTen', a day-long series of lecture-demonstrations and Bharatanatyam performances at the festival.
Kolkata-headquartered contemporary dance company Pickle Factory, in collaboration with the NCPA, staged 111 (One Hundred and Eleven), described as a "powerful duel" between British dancer Joel Brown of the UK-based Candoco Dance Company and Estonian dancer Eve Mutso, former principal dancer with Scottish Ballet, in which "they explore their different strengths and vulnerabilities" (on Sunday, 11 December). Canada-based Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer Lata Pada and her Sampradaya Dance Creations company performed Celebrating Devi, featuring Mohiniyattam dancer Ayswaria Wariar, Bharatanatyam dancers Kashmira Trivedi, Keerthana Ravi, Prachi Saathi and Rohini Singhi, and singer Vidya Harikrishna (on Sunday, 18 December).
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