Möckernstr. 68
10965 Berlin
with movement experience
Indian Contemporary Dance
Kurs with Vasundhara Srivastava
In the frame of Moving through styles
Inspired from Bharatanatyam (one of the 8 classical Indian dances) and Kalaripayattu (considered the oldest martial art in the world), this class includes a warmup by walking, running, jumping, arm balances and dynamic movement combinations. Combined with guided improvisation focusing on activating the mind-body connection to warm up and integrate our creativity and imagination. We will do exercises in standing and floorwork combinations that helps us to prepare for learning short movement sequences (using the different rhythm patterns from Bharatanatyam and working on using different mudras or hand positions combined with movement). At the end of the class, we learn a choreography that combines floorwork along with contemporary and traditional Indian dance movements inspired from all of these various techniques, practices, and approaches.
Vasundhara Srivastava
Vasundhara Srivastava is a professional contemporary dancer and movement artist from India. Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, she has been dancing from the young age of 6, dabbling in various cultural and international dance forms. After completing her high school education, she pursued 2 professional dance educations at the Attakkalari Center of Movement Arts in Bangalore, India and at Berlin Dance Institute, Germany. Since 2021, she has been working as a freelance contemporary dancer, dance educator, choreographer, and yoga teacher in Berlin and has performed her artistic works at various prestigious venues across the city such as Petersburg Art Space, ada Studios, Waschhaus Potsdam, and ACUD Theater etc. Her movement style is inspired from the various dance forms she learned through her life including Bharatanatyam (traditional classical Indian dance), Kalaripayattu (traditional Indian martial art), Indian folk dances, jazz, Bollywood dance, and contemporary dance. She defines her work as a bridge between the Eastern and Western ideologies, experiences, and traditions with a special focus on South Asian experiences of being a female, person of color, contemporary artist in Berlin.
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