The art of Bharatanatyam

Presented by the School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Aranyani Bhargav’s distinctive approach to Bharatanatyam—giving equal importance to the traditional and modern, the human and divine, the religious and secular—led her to explore other dance forms like ballet and contemporary dance, as well as Pllates, yoga and martial arts in various institutions in the UK and India. This approach also led her to engage with dance academically. She studied at the University of Oxford where she wrote her dissertation on the multiple-modernities within Bharatanatyam. She also wrote a column on dance for two years in one of India’s leading newspapers, The Hindu.
Aranyani currently teaches and practices in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, and continues to perform regularly. She is artistic director of her dance company ‘Vyuti’, which explores interactions and body contact between multiple dancing bodies through the grammar of Bharatanatyam.
Aranyani is empanelled with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and is the recipient of the Natya Kala Mani Award in 2014 for her noteworthy contributions as a Bharatanatyam artist.
Register here by COB Sunday, 20 March to attend the performance.
This performance is free and open to the public.
Location
Theatrette, Level 2, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU
Contact
- Lynn Materne02 6125 3498