Schedule for 2009
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Natya Kala Conference 2009
Dec 26 - 31, 2009 Chennai
Theme: DANCE MATTERS!
Convener: Ananda Shankar Jayant
 
Venue: Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, 'Dr. Nalli Gana Vihar', 20, Maharajapuram Santhanam Road, T Nagar, Chennai 600017 
 
 
Date Theme Session I 

9.30-10.30 

10.30-10.45 Session II 

10.45-11.45

Session III 

11.45-13.00

26 Dec  Past - Present continuous Inauguration by D Purandeswari 
Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Government of India 

Keynote Address Jayant Kastuar Secretary Sangeet Natak Akademi 

Tea break Plenary session: Where do we go from here? 

Dr Sunil Kothari 

Changing Kinetics 

Hari Krishnan 

Srividya Natarajan 

Priyadarsini Govind 

Date Theme Session I 

9.15-10.05 

Session II 

10.10-11.00

Session III 

11.10-12.00

Session IV 

12.10-13.00

27 Dec  Legacy The Balasaraswati legacy 

Nandini Ramani 

The male dancer - Kalakshetra legacy 

VP Dhananjayan 

Kuchipudi - The Vempati Chinna Satyam legacy 

Dr Anuradha

Documenting Dance - The Mohan Khokar legacy 

Ashish Mohan Khokar 

28 Dec Inner World-Outer world The Expressive Body 

Sujata Mohapatra 

Essence of Abhinaya 

Lakshmi Vishwanathan 

Panel: Media and Dance 

Sadanand Menon 

Ramnarayan 

Anjana Rajan 

Chitra Mahesh 

Anuradha Ananth 

Aniruddhan Vasudevan 

Past Forward-I Excerpts from new works 

Arangham Trust 

Natya- STEM dance  
company 

Prateesh Thriutiya & Padma Kumar 

Thiruchelvam 

Samudra 

29 Dec New Directions Re-imagining the image 

Chitra Visweswaran 

In Conversation - Collaborations 

Anita Ratnam 

Astad Debbo 

Thaka Dimi Tha TV, Reality shows and dance 

Radhika Shurajit 

Panel: Dancing Difference Moderator: Anita Ratnam 

Lata Pada 

Ramaa Bharadvaj 

Ratna Kumar 

Hari Krishnan 

Aravinth Kumaraswamy 

Siri Rama 

30 Dec New Directions Dance Choreography 

Kumudini Lakhia

In Conversation: Stretch Marks 

Geeta Chandran 

Ramli Ibrahim 

Panel: Young Gurus - Gen Next Moderator: Leela Venkataraman 

A Lakshman 

Gopika Verma 

Kishore Mosalikanti 

Deepika Reddy 

Anita Guha 

Dance in Film Choreography 

Saroj Khan 

Date Theme  Session I 

9.15 – 10.15 

Session II 

10.20 – 11.00

Session III 

11.10 – 12.10

Session IV 

12.20 – 13.20

31 Dec Dance Matters Dance Lights 

Gautam Bhattacharjee 

IPR and Dance 

Uttara Coorlawala 

Jayaprada Ramamurthy 

Universal-Legal 

Panel: Art, Beauty, Creation Moderator: Anil Srinivasan 

Unnikrishnan 

Rajeev Menon 

Devdutt Patnaik 

Valedictory 

Shanta Serbjeet Singh 

 

Special Evening performance : NATA SANKIRTAN of Manipur, 27 December 2009, 7.30pm 
By Jawaharlal Manipuri Dance Academy, Imphal 
Sponsored by Sangeet Natak Akademi 

Satellite activity: 

    TWINKLE TOES: 29 December 2009, 3pm - 4.30pm 
    A special afternoon of dance, for and by children 
    Curated by Churchill Pandian 
    Venue: Kamakoti Gana Mandir (Mini hall of Krishna Gana Sabha) 

    COFFEE DIALOGUES 
    Everyday post conference at venue 

Further details at www.natyakalaconference.com 

ALL ARE WELCOME