Beeja performs classical Bharatanatyam, presenting it in a way that is fresh, rigorous and exciting. The company creates innovative work in collaboration with artists from wide ranging disciplines, connecting dance with the worlds of story telling, theatre, music, multi media, and more. Many of Beeja's performances are site specific, involve the audience and encourage interactivity. Beeja artists have performed throughout the UK and internationally, both as soloists and in ensembles in mainstream venues to appreciative audiences. Beeja has also performed extensively in non-conventional settings - Museums, hospitals, shopping malls, melas and even the London Undersgound.

Performance formats
• with live music – 3-6 musicians
• with recorded music and 1-2 musicians
• with recorded music.

Space
• dancing area 20ft by 20ft (minimum), even wooden floor covered with a dance floor (vinyl), mopped and clean, safe for bare feet
• warm, well lit dancing area
• a mat or carpet for the musicians to sit.

Technical
• microphones for all accompanying musicians and the dancer
• sound system, CD player (with sound technician)
• feedback speakers
• a complement of front, side and top lights (with lighting technician).

General
• a warm changing room with a mirror, for the dancers and the musicians
• refreshments for the artists.

Other
• hospitality and accommodation to be provided by the organiser with provision for vegetarian food.
• the artists would be accompanied by a administrator manager
• no photography or video except with the permission of the artist.

Examples of past performances

From the Heart
Performance – culmination of a two year project dance therapy project in children’s wads of hospitals. Anusha depicted the Children’s world and interaction of their lives and ours.

Deepam

Colour Contacts
A multi-media dance performance commissioned by the Museum of London for the London voices exhibition, 2004. Colour Contacts imagines the city of London through the eyes of its inhabitants, exploring the memories, voices impression of all those who live work and visit here. These voices were drawn from the oral history collection of the museum of London. It was performed at the Museum of London, Brent Brent Cross shopping centre, Southwark Tube Station and the Ealing Mela.Colour contacts was supported bythe Heritage Lottery Fund

Priyam [Love]
A Bharatanatyam performance about the shades of love. Priyam illustrates the longing of a devotee for god as an erotic expression between lovers.

Shankara
A performance of classical Bharatanatyam repertoire in praise of Lord Shiva, the creator of truth and destroyer of ignorance. Performed at the October Gallery as part of the exhibition ‘Serendipity – New Art for Sri Lanka”, April 2003 accompanied by live music and narration. See www.theoctobergallery.com/past

The Milk White Ocean
Beeja collaborated with the Wonderful Beast Theatre Company to tell the Hindu creation story of the churning of the ocean of milk. This storytelling dance performance was presented in the Nehru Gallery at the V&A, Natural History Museum and toured in North London.

Sea of Fishes and Other Stories
This site specific performance was an encounter between Indian classical dance and the most celebrated surviving artworks of the Italian High Renaissance. Anusha performed infront of two of Raphael’s monumental biblical scenes interpreting and drawing out the stories and characters and enabling the audience to find new life in the painting. Performed in the Raphael Cartoon Gallery at the V&A during the ‘Encounters’ Exhibition, 2004

Dust