Dancing Ganjam Odissi Style

Ramli Ibrahim, Sutra Foundation | Vanizha Vasanthanathan, performer

18-Mar-16 14:00

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The dancer-model shares how one discipline (dance) helps the developing of the other (modeling), and the artistic director details how Vanizha who was “too tall” some years ago is now the right stuff for dancing with the troupe in public performances. Ramli Ibrahim also reveals what it is to make a classical dance form relevant to contemporary audiences, here in Malaysia and in India.

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