In keeping with its name, the company Beeja aims to generate new ideas, new understanding and fresh creative forms. Its work is based in Indian classical dance, bharatanatyam, and offers a range of options — performances, workshops, residencies and regular dance classes.
Beeja artists have performed in mainstream venues to critical acclaim. We regularly perform in non-conventional venues like museums, hospitals, schools, village halls and other public spaces. We aim to make bharatanatyam accessible to a wider audience and encourage interaction with the artists and the dance form.
Beeja also offers workshops and residencies in 'Bollywood', Indian folk, creative movement and other Indian classical styles.
Performance 2009
Songs of the Wandering Aengus
27 February 2009
Anusha Subramanyam performed with Sam and Joan McCready, in a play on Yeats, in the stunning settings of Bickleigh Castle, Devon. The performance was part of a cultural weekend arranged in association with the Farringdon Society of Arts, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the death of Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Sam McCready is Professor of Theatre at University of Maryland, USA.
Workshop at NSDF 2009
National Student Drama Festival (NSDF)
29-30 March 2009
Beeja conducted a series of workshops at NSDF, in Scarborough. The workshops were led by Anusha Subramanyam and assisted Shyla Lakshminarayana and Aindrila Ghosh.
Award 2009
Anusha Subramanyam received a Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship to travel in the month of July 2009 to Pittsburgh, USA. Anusha will be learning anatomy experientially, by exploring the fundamentals of body systems at the Centre of Body Mind Movement under the guidance of Mark Taylor.
Dance Training 2009
CAT (Momentum - Centre for Advanced Training) auditions
Anusha Subramanyam is a bharatanatyam subject leader at CAT (Momentum - Centre for Advanced Training) for South Asian and Contemporary Dance in Birmingham. Momentum announced auditions for the next intake of talented young dance students to start their training in September 2009. The audition dates for bharatanatyam programme are May 17 and June 14.
Dance-India Summer School 2009
Anusha Subramanyam is the Programme Director of Dance-India Summer School 2009 which will take place at The Lowry, Manchester, August 9 - 16. Now in its second year, Dance-India, conceived and created by Milapfest, is an exciting and visionary dance education programme offering intensive training in three Indian classical dance styles: Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Odissi.
Bharatanatyam Classes
The Place, Euston for adults. The classes will resume from 1 May 2009.
Swiss Cottage Community centre for children.
Nupur Arts, Leicester.
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