ACTIVITY 2016 - 2017
AAMAD’s inter disciplinary and cross cultural projects are an important part of its activities. AAMAD’s artists have been featured in prestigious national and International dance festivals. AAMAD has been successfully organizing festivals & seminars for last two decades and won rave reviews from the art critics and art connoisseurs.
AAMAD tried to highlight community issues through our performances and also raise awareness about rights of Women and person with disabilities.
OCTOBER 2016
Regular Kathak dance classes of Foundation, Certificate, Diploma and Post Diploma courses were continued as per syllabus of Aamad. Theory Classes were conducted by Guru’s of Aamad and covered the following content:
• Focusing on Ideas about Natyashastra and its content.
• Teaching the History of the evolution of Kathak
• Differentiation between Folk dances and classical dances.
On 21 October AAMAD dance centre has performed Turn & Twist dance production, choreographed by Guru Rani Khanam for National Human Right’s Foundation day celebratiom at DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi. It is is a vibrant amalgamation of Kathak, Pung Cholom, Odissi, Bharatnatyam & Kalbelia. The rhythmic foot movements with electrifying turns of Kathak, acrobatic feats involving jumps and leaps to the changing rhythms with drums of Pung Cholom, sharp and graceful movements of Bharatnatyam / Odissi and the serpent movements of Kalbeliya made spectacular presentation and showed amazing glorious rich cultural heritage
14 & 15 September 2016
On 14 & 15 September 2016 AAMAD Dance Center organized successfully an interactive seminar 'JASHN' along with video interaction, highlighting the importance and impact of Indo – Persian art and culture & its related visual portrayal of the 11th - 19th century’s Persian miniature paintings & manuscripts at IIC, Lodhi Road on 14 & 15 September 2016.