02 September

2013

18:00 hrs

Auditorium

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

Please show your valid identity card or passport at the entry point!

Free admission

for a maximum of 200 guests. Bags and eatables should not be brought inside the premises of the Embassy.

Information:

030-25 79 54 -03/ -05

Dance

SAMMILANA

SHAKTI

Dance

SAMMILANA - SHAKTI

Sneha Bharadwaj – Bharatanatyam dance

Franzika Angerer - Ballet

The 45-minute dance drama is performed by Ms Sneha Bharadwaj, an accomplished Bharatanatyam exponent from India, and Ms Franzika Angerer, a distinguished Ballerina from Germany. It is a juxtaposition of two time-honoured classical dance forms, Bharatanatyam and Ballet.

Bharatanatyam is, like all Indian dance idioms, a ‘grounded’ dance style, in which the dancer plays with gravity, whereas in ballet, the dancer flies off gravity, seeking the freedom of a bird on wings. So  Sammilana-Shakti is an orchestration of the pull of the earth and freedom of space.

The theme assumes a great contemporary significance for the whole world where women are becoming equal partners with men in everyday walk of life.