Navarasa Dance Theater is a contemporary dance theater company founded by renowned dancer and choreographer, Aparna Sindhoor in 1991 in Mysore, India. The creative team of Aparna Sindhoor, SM.Raju (Rajendran Sivasankaran) and Anil Natyaveda has created works that is new in style and content. They have created over fifteen full length dance theater works and presented them at sold out shows to diverse audiences. Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda have toured extensively in North America, Europe and India, and has been invited to perform at various venues including the Jacob's Pillow, New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas, World Social Forum, New World Theater (Amherst, MA), Teesri Duniya Theater (Montreal, Canada,)Amol Palekar's Theater Festival (Pune, India,)and Edinburgh Festival.
Navarasa Dance Theater (NDT) has a wide repertoire of solo and group works in classical and contemporary dance and theater. Inspired by Indian classical and folk dance forms, theater (both Western and Indian), world music, martial arts (Kalarippayattu), aerial dance, yoga, live singing and storytelling, NDT’s work is dynamic, radical, and original style of dance theater.
NDT is known for its shows with themes that deal with human issues in a meaningful way that makes audiences enjoy and be touched at the same time. Presented with wonderful comic timing, innovative and stylistic choreography, NDT draws audiences from different backgrounds connect to the work both at an individual and collective level. NDT has performed at the Lincoln Center, New York, NJPAC and other theater and dance festivals all around the world including at Beyond Words: International Theater Festival in Pune, India. Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda are currently working with Prime Time Entertainment to create Franco Dragone’s new show INDIA in Germany.
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