Toronto 
Events Description
Goes Global with Live and Live-Steamed Performances, Symposia, Film Retrospective
The 16th Kalanidhi Festival of Indian Dance,“Whirling Streams” production is dedicated to Sudha Khandwani Founder and Artistic Director who passed away in November, leaving an extraordinary history of International Indian Dance through her fifteen archived festivals (1993 to 2014). With the passing of Sudha, her sister Menaka Thakkar has agreed to finish the Festival as its Artistic Director with the intention to continue the work of spreading a passion for Indian Dance as an art form.
Performances – The live and live-streamed Festival will present over 40 dancers from Canada and India and feature the classical and contemporary dance styles of Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kathak, Chhau, Kathakali and Modern over the course of six days. Performers include Menaka Thakkar Dance Collective (Toronto), Santosh Nair Sadhya Dance (India), Bhavajan Kumar Dancers (Toronto), Sinha Dance (Montreal), Deepti Gupta-Arzoo Dance Theatre (Ottawa), Aparna Sindhoor Navarasa Dance Theater (Los Angeles), and solos by Menaka Thakkar (Toronto), Kasturi Mishra (Ottawa), Sujata Mohapatra (India), Parul Gupta (Toronto), Riya Alika Mittal (Edmonton), Nivedha Ramalingham (Pickering), Preetisha Mohapatra (India), Eesha Pingale (India), Shobika Sivaruban (Toronto), Sonia St-Michel (Ottawa), Sweta Pararajasingam (Toronto) and more to be announced.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets :
For SHOWS at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre:
Single show tickets Tuesday-Saturday: $27 &$18
$18 for seniors, $15 for students, under 25 & arts workers,
Sunday Retrospective and Symposiums: FREE.
7 Show Passes: $126 & $98 – Get one ticket to all seven shows;
4 Show Passes: $90 & $76 – Get one ticket to four shows of your choice
Ticket Prices for LIVE STREAMED shows: In public locations: $15; On internet devices: $10;
How to get tickets?
Buy Online
At the door:The Box Office opens 2 hours before evening performances and 1 hour before Matinees for in-person purchase.
WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time:
March 28th to April 2, 2017
PERFORMANCES
Tuesday, March 28 7.30pm – Opening Night
Nivedha Ramalingam, Bharatanatyam (Pickering)
Menaka Thakkar, “Karna Kunti” (Toronto)
Sujata Mohapatra, Odissi (Bhubaneswar)
Santosh Nair Sadhya Dance, “Game of Dice” (New Delhi)
Wednesday, March 29 7.30pm – Kathak in Transition
Kasturi Mishra (Ottawa)
Deepti Gupta-Arzoo Dance Theatre (Ottawa)
Thursday, March 30 7.30pm – Odissi Eventing
Sujata Mohapatra (Bhubaneswar)
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company (Toronto)
Friday, March 31 7.30pm – Contemporary Dance
Roger Sinha & Mark Medrano, Sinha Danse, (Montreal)
“Burning Skin”
Aparna Sindhoor & Anil Natyaveda, Navarasa Dancetheater, (Los Angeles/Boston)
“A Story and A Song”
Santosh Nair, Sadhya Dance (New Delhi)
“Mystical Forest”
Saturday April 1
3 sets of dancers from India and Canada perform live on stage from Toronto and India
Performance Group One 10:30am
Preetisha Mohapatra, Odissi (Bhubaneshwar)
Eesha Pingley, Bharatanatyam (Mumbai)
Parul Gupta, Kathak (Toronto)
Performance Group Two 2:30pm
Shobi Ruban, Bharatanatyam (Toronto)
Sonia St. Michel, Odissi (Ottawa)
Riya Alika Mittal Kathak (Edmonton)
Bharatanatyam Evening 7:30pm
Sweta Pararajasingham (Toronto)
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company (Toronto)
Bhavajan Kumar (Toronto, India)
Nivedha Ramalingam (Pickering)
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company (Toronto)
Bhavajan Kumar Ensemble (Toronto, India)
Sunday April 2 – All events take place in Fleck Dance Theatre ALL SUNDAY EVENTS ARE FREE!
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Demonstration/Discussion of Online Teaching of Indian Dance with Menaka Thakkar and Sujata Mohapatra, 6 dancers
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Looking Back at Contemporary Dance: A Retrospective. Filmmaker Abdullah Khandwani and Rasesh Thakkar trace the story of Contemporary Indian Dance as revealed through the past 14 Kalanidhi Festivals.
3:00pm to 5:00pm
CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN INDIA SYMPOSIUM Skype calls and in person
Kalanidhi examines the current trends in contemporary through the eyes of some of the most eminent scholars and performers of Indian Dance.
Venue & Address :
Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queens Quay W., 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON
Live Streamed Locations:
Woodside Square Cinemas, 1571 Sandhurst Cir., Scarborough, ON and
Menaka Thakkar Studio Theatre, 11 Glen Cameron Road, Thornhill, ON.
