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Event Description
Malini Srinivasan presents a class exploring mind-body connections through Bharatanatyam. This class is designed for all people who wish to explore ways of connecting their thoughts and emotions to their physical expression as they face the challenges of quarantine. The class begins with an extensive, music-driven warm up. We will then explore percussive footwork and mudras (hand gestures) geared towards releasing and directing pent-up energies and expressing emotion through movement and gesture.
Artist Bio
Malini Srinivasan is a third-generation Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer and teacher and the disciple of world-renowned artist Sri C.V. Chandrasekhar. She lived in Chennai from 1999-2004 to pursue her study of dance and its allied art forms such as Nattuvangam, Carnatic vocal music, Kalaripayattu, Yoga, Sanskrit and Tamil. A critically-acclaimed soloist, Malini has performed her creative and classical works for various audiences in the U., India and Europe. She has also performed with groups including the Padmini Chettur Group, Ragamala, Rajika Puri and Dancers, Thresh and Kala Nivedanam. Malini has choreographed solo and group Bharatanatyam pieces, including Being Becoming, Ode to Love’s Arrows and Tejas-Luminous. She was awarded the Dance in Queens Residency (2009) the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Residency (2010), and the Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant (2010, 2012, 2014) and a New Music USA Grant (2016). Based in Queens, NY, Malini is committed to spreading a deep understanding of Indian classical traditions through teaching. She was an Adjunct Lecturer at SUNY Stony Brook between 2006-16, and is a visiting artist at Princeton University, Colgate University, UNC Asheville, Wellesley College and more. Malini has been a Teaching Artist with City Lore since 2008, and became the School Programs Manager in 2018. New York Times Review: "The solo is gripping in its toggling between dread and desire. Ms. Srinivasan’s sweet face is incredibly expressive. She inhabits her character with such absolute focus as to compel empathy; her experience becomes the viewer’s." Brian Seibert, 8/10/14