Bharatanatyam Master Class with Mythili Prakash
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Venue: Kalapriya Studio
Address: 2101 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Time: 12:00-3:00PM
$75 Workshop Fee
This Masterclass with Mythili Prakash will lead trained Bharatanatyam dancers through a technique class with live music, followed by a lecture- demonstration style approach to Mythili’s choreographic explorations, namely her relationship to conventional structures and narratives and how they shape her work. Participants will learn small excerpts of choreography from Mythili’s repertoire.
ABOUT MYTHILI PRAKASH
Mythili Prakash belongs to a new generation of classical Indian dancers. She is one of the most celebrated and respected young Bharatanatyam dancer/choreographers today. A second generation Indian and American artist, Mythili has positioned herself as a global and cosmopolitan artist through her unique experiences and collaborations Her repertoire is an embodiment of narratives of the many worlds that shape her.
Under the watchful eye of her mother and teacher dance exponent Viji Prakash, Mythili began her performing career with her solo debut in India at the age of eight and has since performed extensively in prestigious venues and festivals throughout the world. She has studied with several legendary stalwarts from India, and is trained and mentored by of India’s iconic dancer/choreographer Malavika Sarukkai. Mythili has toured her own solo productions in the United Kingdom, Scotland, France, and Singapore, the United States and Mexico. Nominated by celebrated dancer/choreographer Akram Khan as “choreographer of the future” for UK-based Dance Umbrella’s “Four by four commissions,” Mythili premiered her solo work “HERE and NOW” at their 2019 Festival.
She is a recipient of the Creation to Performance Grant from the Irvine Dance Foundation and Artistic Innovation Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. In 2021 she received the National Dance Project Touring Grant from NEFA for She’s Auspicious, which previewed in Hamburg at the “Reflektor Festival” curated by musician Anoushka Shankar. Mythili was also a principal dancer in Akram Khan Company’s “Outwitting the Devil.” In 2022, she created a trilogy of pieces, beginning with AR | DHA – a commission for the 90th anniversary festival of Jacob’s Pillow, and concluding with ONE | ALL for “Festival in Motion” one of the first of its kind site specific dance festivals in Qatar, surrounding the World Cup 2022.