Dance
Anwesha
Saturday 8th August, Garden Stage
1.15-1.45pm & 3.30-4.15pm
Manipuri is one of the six major Classical dance styles of India. It is indigenous to the state of Manipur, north-eastern state of India with major influence of Thai and Indonesian dance forms. Manipuri is an umbrella which has many different forms, evolved and come together over many generations. Hence it has got a lot of variation in style of dance. It is the only Classical Indian dance which has its own separate Male( Tandava) and female (Lasya) dance form.
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Bollywood Dance
Federation of Indian Performing Arts
Sunday 9th August, Garden Stage 1.30-1.45pm
From the company that are bringing you Nature’s Icon’s another insight into the beautiful and varied world that is Bollywood Dance.
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Bollywood Unlimited
Sunday 9th August, Garden Stage
12noon-1.00pm
A retrospective music and dance performance that charts the history of Bollywood - fun for all the family.
Vibrant Bollywood extravaganza – the show will take you through an enchanting journey of eclectic songs, pulsating rhythms, glamorous dances depicting rich flavours of traditional and contemporary Bollywood.
Desi Bravehearts
Saturday 8th August, Garden Stage
1.00-1.15pm, 1.45-2.00pm, 2.45-3.00pm
4.45-5.00pm, 5.30-5.45pm & 6.30-6.45pm
The Desi Bravehearts were born and bred in Scotland, raised on Irn Bru and want to show the UK and the rest of the world that Scotland is culturally diverse!
Bollywood dance choreographed by the legendary Pratap Shetty for a talented ensemble from across central Scotland. The group consist of young people from Scottish, Indian, Chinese and Pakistani background. The group were trained by the much sought after choreographer in the Bollywood Film Industry Pratap Shetty. The Desi Bravehearts have recently just come back from performing at the Mumbai Festival.
Navarasa - Expressions of Life
Ananda Shankar Jayant
and
the
Shankarananda Kalakshetra ensemble
UK Premiere
Saturday 8th August, the Big Top 4.15-4.45pm
Indian aesthetics and dramaturgy, speak of the nine emotions of life – Roudra or Anger; Bhayanaka or Fear; Adhbhuta or Wonder; Bhibhatsa or Disgust; Veera or Valour; Karuna or grief; Hasya or Humour; Sringara or love and Shanta or Peace. In the context of Indian dance,these emotions are usually portrayed in through myth and metaphor, with the emotion becomes the by product of a story, on a bedrock of lyrics.
Navarasa - Expressions of Life, relocates the Navarasas without the immediacy of being surrounded by the narrative, myth and metaphor, and presents the Navarasas, through the mnemonics of music, body and pure dance, connecting and linking centuries of human mind, emotion and soul.
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Nature's Icons
FIPA
Scottish Premiere
Saturday 8th August, Garden Stage
3.15-3.45pm & 6.45-7.15pm
Sunday 9th August, Garden Stage
3.00-3.30pm & 5.00-5.30pm
Nature’s Icons is street dance theatre at its most thrilling produced specially to be performed at Melas.
It is an exciting, action packed spectacle of six leaping, powerising gods and demons with a breathtaking eight armed ten-foot high goddess.
Full of fire, drama and colour, the myth of Mahisha, a boar headed demon vainly attempting to vanquish Durga, pushes the extremes of South Asian dance into groundbreaking, outdoor scale.
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Simhanandini
Ananda Shankar Jayant
and
the
Shankarananda Kalakshetra ensemble
UK Premiere
Saturday 8th August, Garden Stage 12noon-12.15pm & 6.00-6.15pm
Dancer, choreographer Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant, with an acclaimed and intense body of artistic work, that spans rich mythologies historical chronicles, searing commentary on gender issues, as well as secular & philosophical presentation, continues to stretch the outer realms of artistic endeavor, using the grammar, idiom and space-time construct of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi making it at once contemporary and communicative.
Dancing with joy, Ananda, one of the renowned dancers of the country; imbues technique and grammar with a sparkling quality, bristling with life. Hailed as an intelligent and thinking dancer with contemporary sensibility, Ananda, with her grace, vivacity and inner luminescence draws the viewer into the inner spaces that she paints, leaving the audience deeply touched.
A breathtaking performer, brilliant choreographer and erudite scholar, Ananda has polished her art to a fine pitch, where the rigor and intensity of training, deep dedication and commitment meets a finely tuned intellect, that blends with ease traditional structures with contemporary inputs.
She was conferred with the prestigious Padmashri,in 2007 by His Excellency the former President of India,Shri APJ Abdul Kalam in recognition of her distinguished service in the field of art. She was also conferred with the sought after title of Nritya – Choodamani by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, the Kalaimamani from the Govt of Tamil Nadu and the award of Kalaratna from the Govt of Andhra Pradesh.
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Yasmin Bushby
Sunday 9th August, Garden Stage
2.45-3.00pm & 5.45-6.00pm
Eastern influences by accomplished Edinburgh based performer Yas, just back from a training trip to Egypt!
Edinburgh based artist Yasmin is of Turkish descent and has studied Egyptian Oriental Bellydance. She has melded both Turkish and Egyptian influences, creating a style all her own. Yasmin will be performing Modern Egyptian bellydance to both live and pre-recorded music.
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North Edinburgh Arts Youth Carnival
Sunday 9th August, Garden Stage
1.45-2.00pm & 4.45-5.00pm
Once more the lively young people of North Edinburgh with the results of their Summer Carnival porject.
After last year’s success, North Edinburgh Arts carnival project expects to be even better than before. Children of all ages are involved in this project that looks to use the arts as a way to engage and inspire young people who live in the Forth ward area of Edinburgh. This project includes a creative programme that combines carnival skills including dance, drumming, fashion design and arts and crafts. This will feed into 2 fun-filled performances to be showcased at the Drylaw Festival and the Edinburgh Mela on Sunday 9th August. Watch this space – Not to be missed.
For further information please contact North Edinburgh Arts on 0131 315 2151.
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