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.
Forthcoming Performances 2009
na asat
22 December 2009- Narada Gana Sabha
2nd January 2010- Brahma Gana Sabha
6 January 2010- Karthik Fine Arts
From The Heart
15 April 2010, 7.30pm at Rich Mix
This choreographic work challenges notions of normal and abnormal, and draws inspiration from choreographer Anusha Subramanyam's therapy work with people with physical and mental challenges. The work presents a range of raw and sincere dances and uses the emotive and gestural grammar of bharatanatyam and combines it with movement that is both contemporary and classical.
Workshop
25 March 2010, 10.30am – 12.20pm and 1.30 – 3.30pm at Rich Mix
From The Heart Workshop for children.Recent Performances 2009
Nasadya and The Sacrifice of Life
3 & 4 November 2009
'Many Heavens One Earth'
Windsor Castle and Quaker House
Launch of the Maharaja exhibition V&A
1 November, 2009
Royal Nritta at the V&A
1 November, 2009
An interactive performance during Maharaja Exhibition.
Diwali on the Square
4 October 2009
Beeja opens the Diwali celebration at the Trafalgar Square.
Bharatanatyam Classes
The Place, Euston for adults. The classes will run every Friday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Classes will resume again in 5 February
Swiss Cottage Community centre for under 16 year olds. The new term will start in January 2010
Nupur Arts, Leicester for under 16 year olds. The new term will start in January 2010
DanceXchange, Birmingham, for under 16 year olds. The new term will start in January 2010
Dance Training
CAT (Momentum - Centre for Advanced Training)
Anusha Subramanyam is a bharatanatyam subject leader at CAT (Momentum - Centre for Advanced Training) for South Asian and Contemporary Dance in Birmingham. The programme is in its second year.
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.
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