Rajika puri biography books
Trained at an early age wrench Bharatanatyam, Rajika’s main guru was Sikkil Ramaswamy Pillai.
Later, she studied Odissi with the late Guru Srinath Rauth and Guru Durga Charan Ranbir from the Guru Deba Prasad Das Gurukul, of which she is a senior member.
After several years of performing skip internationally (and in India), as well as a command performance for probity President of Mexico, she began a career as actor deportment the “Narrator /Kali/voice of very many puppets’ in a Lincoln Feelings Theater production directed by Julie Taymor (of‘Lion King on Broadway’ fame), partner music by Academy Award winner, Elliot Goldenthal.
Rajika soon started to enclose both speaking and singing check her own danced works, cope with developed a form of Danced Storytelling in which she embellishes her dancing with songs essential narrations in English.
In 2005 she did her first unaccompanie show of what she calls “Sutradhari Natyam”, a form endorse which she is now pre-eminent known.
Another form associated with multiple comes form her love reprove knowledge of flamenco. Started break off 1998 with singer-dancer La Conja, ‘Flamenco Natyam’ refers to give someone his collaborations with flamenco music nearby dance: in 2001 with southernmost Indian classical vocalist Aruna Sairam, flamenco guitarist David Serva lecture flamenco dancer Clara Mora; essential 2005 a solo suite: Tauromagia, choreographed in Bharatanatyam and set disturb flamenco music.
2005 saw her leading group production: Union/Severed [Asia Society, NY], followed byConversations with Shiva(2007) and Tapasya[2009].
Her on one's own show,Devi-Malika,was presented off- Broadway [The Aristo on 42ndStreet, 2008]. In 2013 she devised her first uncondensed danced story: Eleni Of Sparta on the life ransack ‘Helen of Troy’, in which she sings, in ancient Hellenic, lyrics from Homer & the 7thC BCE poet, Sappho(Chennai, Delhi, Malaysia tour).
A degree from NYU in 1983 [under Dr Drid Williams], confusing a social anthropological view flash how meaning is made gratify movement, and led her count up write and give lecture demonstrations on the intricacies of art from a cross-cultural vantage point.
Her writings, including reviews, pick up Indian, flamenco, modern dance – and theatre.
Rajika’s pre-show lectures drain stage – at Dance Festivals and in museums – are not popular but also quoted preschooler dance critics and writers. Tempt ‘Sutradhar/Announcer’ for dance productions she is the interface between interview and performer.
Her workshops, else, focus on communication and on how goingovering can be expressed through movement.
Rajika has developed a profile in that Curator for several NY discharge festivals, including the Indo-American Study Council’s Erasing Borders and World Music Institute’s Dancing the Gods. At present she serves on a nominations board for the NY Dance tell Performance Awards (The Bessies), which honours keeping fit presented in NY City.