Workshops

Educational workshops Anwesha Company has expanded by delivering motivational sessions and team building dance and music workshops. We feel it is essential to help the participants to build a knowledge of themselves and Indian Dance forms lend incredibly naturally to this. Through dance workshops we allow the participants to grow in confidence by encouraging individuals to challenge themselves by attempting something new. Above all, our workshops are colourful, lively and fun. All of our corporate workshops are client-led, which means that each programme is geared towards you and your students and designed around your specific requirements. We will discuss your needs and desired outcomes and tailor our sessions to those ends. Delivering the session that you want is of paramount importance and we welcome input and discussion at every stage of the programmes development.

Our workshops provide participants with an informal, fun atmosphere in which they can share and enjoy the activities on offer. The workshops promote a sense of shared experience and unity between the attendees. Our workshops are ideal ways of not only challenging our participants, but also to introducing them to an art that can keep them fit and healthy. South Asian dance covers many different styles and types such as, the classical traditions of Manipuri,Bharata Natyam, Kathak and Odissi etc which have evolved over many centuries.

Workshop Description
The workshop will provide a practical introduction to South Asian dance and music and encourage participants to analyses movements and develop understanding of Indian dance, music, history and culture. Our targeted workshop will improve teamwork and management skills among participants. On the day of the workshop, the tutor will lead participants through simple movements, gestures and expressions. During the workshop, participants will draw upon a range of stimuli to create a short dance piece.

A sixty-minute workshop will touch upon the following elements:

Namaskar: Greeting to open and close session, which involves marking the space and touching the earth in a gesture of respect.

Warm Up
Chanting / Clapping of rhythmic syllables

Simple movements involving co-ordination of hand, foot, head:; eye-hand etc.

A dance theme based on an epic story and according movement and music .A story will be told along side the dance movement and music. This epic based story will introduce Indian culture to the participants.

These workshop are intended to expand the imagination and knowledge as well as fitness and self confidence for the participants. There are opportunities in the workshop schedule when the participant can imagine and improvise with an already learnt movement.

If you are looking for your students to make a production of their own we can do that with the above process by a series of workshops (3 to 5 days).

Participants enjoy lively, dramatic presentations of stories from Indian Mythology using dance hand gestures to denote animals, birds and kings and queens.

Level
Workshops offered at all levels: Primary, Secondary, GCSE, A level and individuals with special needs, collages and university.

At each level, these versatile and accessible workshops will enable your students to develop their skills and broaden their dance and music experience in a creative and vigorous atmosphere.

Other information
Participants should wear P.E kit or track suit or any other suitable clothing.

Bare feet are essential for South Asian Dance.

Use of school hall should be available for the workshop.

A teacher should be present at all sessions during the workshop.

Costs
For a One and a half hour workshop: £125.00.

For a full day Dance workshop( recorded music)/ music workshop: £225.00.

For a full day dance workshop with live music: £350.00.

Workshops with Performances

Anwesha Company presents
Indian Classical Manipuri Dance Basic Workshop

A rare opportunity to familiarise with Indian Classical Manipuri Dance. Manipuri originates from North east of India and is peculiar as it has separate male and female dance form. The female form has delicately controlled circular movements and the male form has vigorous anti-gravity movements. Manipuri has its own Martial Art vocabulary.

The development of Manipuri dance over the years can classified into four different forms.

1) Lai Haraoba: The combining together of Matter and energy.

2) Cholam: It is inspired from nature and contained animal movements

3) Raas- Lila: It is story based and tells us the story of Love between God Shri Krishna and his beloved lover Shri Radha. It is more dramatic and expressive.

4) Thang-Ta: Manipuri Martial Arts. It is said that no other Indian Classical Dance has so much variety within it.

This workshop will be helpful for beginners, semi-professional, professional dancers and teachers. They will benefit from introduction with basic dance sequence to learn coordination, spin, footwork, rhythm, hand gesture and facial expression.

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Advanced level workshop with Anwesha Ahmed

Drawing inspiration from Manipuri (Indian Classical Dance) and release based contemporary dance, Anwesha will introduce participants to her personlised technique.

Anwesha will work with participants to explore key elements of her movement focusing on fast rhythmical patterns, relationship with the floor, de-constructing the principles of Manipuri and introducing participants to the structures and physical dynamics of Anwesha's own work.

She will introduce methods of using imagery to explore dance movements. She will also draw out inventive movement from the participants.

This workshop will be helpful for participants who have done beginners Manipuri workshop, Semi- professional and professional dancers and teachers.

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