Archive For October 27, 2013
“with Judith Wombwell of Deadfall Dance. She marked a an inciting moment that affirmed the path I finally began embracing 5/6 years back. I got to tell her last night” – Pampi
“for me, the crocodile represents ancient powerful knowledge it can be used to benefit humanity or destroy/control/stifle it priests can therefore be seen as crocodiles…. likewise, the dancer may be such a medium the dancer has the potential to be a spiritual warrior i believe the fighting skills were deliberately removed from dance training so…
DIRECTORS PAMPI, a second-generation Bengali-American Bharata Natyam dancer, of the Smt. Indira Satyapriya’s Nalanda School of Dance, located in Columbus, Ohio. Under her guru’s guidance, Pampi performed her Arangetram (dance graduation) at the tender age of 12. Today, she enjoys experimenting with improvisational dance and choreography, bringing together elements of the classical and the contemporary in…
Through the crocodile warrior body, “Precious Body” explores the human body as both precious to a point of becoming objectified and ascribed monetary value, and the notion of a powerful body of knowledge as precious and therefore dangerous, guarded by society’s ruthless priestly elite. The crocodile symbolically holds both notions of the precious body. By…