Full Programme

Performances, Films & Talk

Tuesday 22 August

ICCR Sculpture Court – 7pm

Performance – Opening Ceremony

Il Castrata | Beatriz Madrid – Fóramen M Ballet | Mexico – solo
A Draft | Dam Van Huynh | UK – duet
Amarcord | Lin Yu-Ju | Taiwan – duet
Esperanza | Bea Debrabant | France/Belgium – solo
Make The Switch From Me | Birutė Letukaitė – Aura Dance Theatre | Lithuania – solo

Wednesday 23 August

Nandan III – 6.30pm

Film Screening – Short Films

Butterfly Soul | Compagnie Humaine | France
Hegira | Ashley Wright | Australia/France
Oedipus Game | Alfredo Miralles | Spain
Solo for Two | Kwiatkowska-Naqvi/Duwadzinska | Poland
Unsettling Green | Gustavo Monteiro | Portugal

Thursday 24 August

G. D. Birla Sabhagar – 7pm

Performance

The Empty Room | Ido Tadmor | Israel – duet
Red dress Waali Ladki | Diya Naidu | India – solo
Lidy | Marcos A. Rossi – Fóramen M Ballet |Mexico – group

INTERMISSION 15 mins

Under This Weight | Dam Van Huynh | UK – duet
Gestoanimal | Marcos A. Rossi – Fóramen M Ballet | Mexico – group
The Dance Without A Name | Surjit Nongmeikapam | India – solo

Friday 25 August

G. D. Birla Sabhagar – 7pm

Performance

Maelstrom | Anna Kenrick – National Youth Dance Company of Scotland | UK
Disco | Teita Iwabuchi | Japan – solo
Under This Weight | Dam Van Huynh | Festival artists – Crossover Project

INTERMISSION 15 mins

Stem | Tien Hsiao-Tzu | Taiwan – solo
Godos | Birutė Letukaitė – Aura Dance Theatre | Lithuania – group

Sunday 27 August

Nandan II – 5.30pm

Film Screening

Atomos | Wayne Mcgregor/Ravi Duprees | UK

Nandan II – 7.00pm

Film Screening

Mr. Gaga | Tomer Heymann | Israel

Monday 28 August

Daga Nikunj – 7pm

Site specific Performance

Re-place | Yael Flexer – National Youth Dance Company of Scotland | UK
Dance Bridges Festival Residency with Van Huynh Company | India-UK
The Augmented Body + Interactive Dance session | Alfredo Miralles | Spain

Tuesday 29 August

8th Day Cafe & Bakery – 11am

Talk

Meet the artists and the Festival team

Workshops

Tuesday 22 August

3-4pm The Doodle Room |NYDCS – Creative Dance | UK
4-5pm The Doodle Room | NYDCS – Contemporary & Street Dance | UK
3.30-5pm Rhythmosaic Studio| Rhythmosaic – ‘Approlication’ | India

Wednesday 23 August

2.30-4pm DNA Danceworks |Bea Debrabant – ‘Vice-Versa’ Contemporary Dance | France/Belgium
3.30-5pm The Doodle Room | Aura Dance Theatre – Floorwork Techniques | Lithuania
3.30-5pm Rhythmosaic Studio | Diya Naidu – Performance Studies | India

Thursday 24 August

3.30-5pm DNA Danceworks |Nicole Lam – Ballet & Creative Dance | USA

Friday 25 August

2.30-4pm Calcutta School of Music | Surjit Nongmeikapam – Body Awareness | India
2.30-4pm The Doodle Room | Crystal Yukumoto – Ballet | USA

Saturday 26 August

11am-1pm The Doodle Room | Crystal Yukumoto & Nicole Lam – Hula Dance | USA
2-3.30pm The Doodle Room | Suman Sarwagi – Lai Haroba | India
2-3.30pm Sparsh Studio | Buoyant Performing Arts – Discovering Space | India
3.30-5pm Sparsh Studio | AURA Dance Theatre – Ballet & Moves | Lithuania

Sunday 27 August

11.30am-1pm Sparsh Studio | AURA Dance Theatre – Improvisation | Lithuania
3-4.30pm Calcutta School of Music | AURA Dance Theatre – A Taste of Ballet | Lithuania
4.30-6pm Calcutta School of Music | Teita Iwabuchi – Contemporary Martial Arts | Japan
3.30-5pm Rhythmosaic Studio | AURA Dance Theatre – Repertoire | Lithuania

Monday 28 August

10-11.30am Sparsh Studio | Fóramen M Ballet – Contemporary Dance | Mexico
11.30am-1pm Sparsh Studio | Tien Hsiao-Tzu – Improvisation | Taiwan
2-3.30pm Sparsh Studio | Lin Yu-Ju – Body Awareness | Taiwan

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MORE INFO ON WORKSHOPS: HERE
We offer a variety of workshops for Children, Young & Professional Dancers as well as Open Workshops.

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Greetings from Vanessa Maria Mirza, Festival Director

It is with great pleasure we present the second edition of Dance Bridges Festival 2017 with the theme, New Panoramas, ‘In you I see my dance’. An open invitation to artists was made in July 2016 to apply for the 2017 edition with over 180 applications from 41 countries across categories. Selections for this year’s Festival was made by our International Artistic & Programming Committee based in London, Taipei & Kolkata. The event will take place between 22nd-29th August 2017 in Kolkata, India with a few preliminary projects starting earlier in the month. We have a wide range of international artists who will be performing, teaching workshops, sharing films and special talks.
Two new initiatives for this edition are the Internship programme and the Crossover Dance Project.  The internships are for young arts professionals/ college level students interested in acquiring hands on training in Festival Management. There are five different specializations to choose from- Media, Design & Communications, Event Management, Artistic Production, Artist Management & Marketing/Advertising Management.
The Crossover Dance project looks at working with a collective from local and Festival artists to recreate an excerpt of a choreography by an international artist. This aims at crossing over the boundaries of dance training, culture and geography, to give both the dancers and the choreographer a new experience of artistic engagement and performative exchange.
A special focus is also on the celebration of the 25 years of “Growing Partnership” between Israel and India and the UK-India Year of Culture celebrating 70 years of cultural relations between the two countries. We are grateful to all of the partners and sponsors who have already agreed to collaborating with us for this year’s edition, and look forward to additional associations through the weeks to follow. We welcome you to join us in Kolkata for the event. The Festival will take place across an array of venues, large theaters, intimate spaces, studios, galleries, cinemas and auditoriums. If you would like to be more involved, send us an email at info@dancebridges.in.