“Namaste” —greetings to you. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, I bring with me the sights, the sounds, the colors and the tastes of this magical land! Today’s India is a land where a 5,000-year-old past mingles with a thoroughly modernized present. In my residency I offer that unparalleled cultural experience.
Program Offerings
Residencies
Dance, Music & Culture of India
Students will learn storytelling and folk dances, music, and folk arts associated with many festivals and languages. Students will be participating, creating, interpreting and producing original art inspired by arts of India. This celebration of senses enriches the student’s personal growth, enhances the understanding, appreciation and communicative skills, and encourages creativity.
Lotus Blossoms: East Indian Dance
Rita engages participants by providing low-impact simple meaningful movements, storytelling, rhythm, music and folk arts of India. These activities support mobility, flexibility, balance and coordination. They inspire a sense of meaning and joy. Movers will explore spontaneous gestures, movement and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. They will discover the richness that this meditative type of dance has to offer as a calming practice, an avenue for creative expression, and a forum for building community.
Workshop
Lotus Blossoms: East Indian Dance
Rita engages participants by providing low-impact simple meaningful movements, storytelling, rhythm, music and folk arts of India. These activities support mobility, flexibility, balance and coordination. They inspire a sense of meaning and joy. Movers will explore spontaneous gestures, movement and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. They will discover the richness that this meditative type of dance has to offer as a calming practice, an avenue for creative expression, and a forum for building community.
