Contact Ramya at natyarpana.durham@gmail.com
About
Ramya Kapadia is an award-winning Knoxville-based multi-disciplinary artist specializing in Bharatanatyam dance, Carnatic music (South Indian dance & music) & Warli art. A creator, performer & curator, Ramya believes in building community through the arts & tell stories that move audiences to becoming compassionate human beings. As a teaching artist, she bridges her academic training in Neuroscience and Medical Physics with the gestural & movement vocabulary of Bharatanatyam & gently offers an alternate way of noticing & understanding our surroundings through week-long residencies and performance assemblies
Program Overview
1) Storytelling Residency (Arts Appreciation & Integration):
In a week-long residency, the students are taught specialized hand gestures coupled with body language, lyrics &/or melodies. They learn to use these tools to first create geometrical and abstract shapes, then relate these to their surroundings and finally, weave stories both ancient and contemporary entirely through mime, without using props.
2) Bharatanatyam – Expression through Movement & Mime Performance (Arts Appreciation & Integration)
Through a lecture-demonstration type performance, the students are introduced to the history of Bharatanatyam, and the gestural vocabulary used in storytelling. The stories told connect to core curriculum and standard
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