Tarana (2022)
Friday, May 31: 7:00 PM
Saturday, June 1 & Sunday, June 2: 12:00 PM
Exhibition Park, 81 London Rd W
Inclement Weather Location: Quebec St Mall, 55 Wyndham St N
ABOUT THE WORK
The Tarana, is a composition of Hindustani classical music in which vocal syllables are based in Arabic and Persian phonemes (units of sound) structured within a rhythmic cycle and melody. This composition has been adapted from music into the Kathak form. The movements are abstract, but strongly denote the vocabulary of Kathak. This Tarana is set to the evening Raag (melodic framework) Chayanat, and the 16 beat rhythmic cycle (Taal) of Teentaal.
CHOREOGRAPHY
Tanveer Alam
PERFORMERS
Sukriti Sharma, Barkha Patel, Tanveer Alam
MUSIC
Gurumurthy Vaidya
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Toronto-based Tanveer Alam trained in Kathak with Sudeshna Maulik and guru Sandhya Desai. Alam is a 2019 graduate of Dance Arts Institute. Alam has performed in the works of Lata Pada, Padmini Chettur, Brandy Leary, Harikishan S. Nair, Sashar Zarif, and Peter Chin. As an emerging choreographer, he has presented work at SummerWorks Festival, Sharing The Stage (National Ballet of Canada), Dusk Dances, etc. Alam is also invested within the dance sector as an Alliance Lead at The South Asian Dance Alliance of Canada, a guest curator at Dancemakers (2023 season), and an Artistic Associate with TOES FOR DANCE (2023 season).
Barkha Patel is a kathak dancer, choreographer, educator, and the Artistic Director of Barkha Dance Company based in New York City. A touring artist, Barkha has performed solo and ensemble works at dance festivals in India and the U.S. Barkha was recently awarded the 2023 Juried Bessie Award.
Toronto based Sukriti Sharma has trained under the able guidance of Sangeet Natak Academy awardee Guru Sh. Krishan Mohan Mishra (elder son of late Pt. Shambhu Maharaj) and completed her 10 years of training in kathak and holds Post Diploma from National Institute of Kathak Dance – Kathak Kendra, New Delhi, India.
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER
Toronto-based Tanveer Alam started his Kathak training with Sudeshna Maulik and continued further nuanced studies with guru Sandhya Desai. Alam is a 2019 graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
Alam has performed in the works of Rina Singha, Lata Pada, Padmini Chettur, Brandy Leary, Harikishan S. Nair, Sashar Zarif, Lucy Rupert, and Peter Chin, to name a few. As an emerging choreographer, he has presented work at SummerWorks Festival, Battery Dance Festival +, MAI – Montréal, arts, interculturels, CanAsian Dance Festival: Grit Short Dances, and Tangente. Alam is also invested within the dance sector as an Alliance Lead at The South Asian Dance Alliance of Canada, a guest curator alongside Nithya Garg at Dancemakers (2023 season), and an Artistic Associate with TOES FOR DANCE (2023 season).
Across the 22/23 season, Alam premiered The Tagore Project (co-choreographed by Atri Nundy), at Tangente and Sampradaya Dance Creations, and In Multiplicity (co-created with Nithya Garg) as a part of the Independent Projects stream at Nuit Blanche (Humber Galleries). Furthermore, he presented Haazri, a new Kathak solo at The National Ballet of Canada’s Sharing The Stage program. His first full length solo entitled Leher, premiered at Native Earth’s Aki Studio in June 2023.