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June 6 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$20 – $30
Presenting Paratopias ON THE STAGE by Pratibha Arts for the 28th annual Guelph Dance Festival!
Combining Kathak (dance) and Tabla (drum) rhythms, Bharatha Natyam (dance), original music and video design, Paratopias celebrates the inspiring possibilities of an inclusive and diverse world. Tradition meets contemporary expression with exquisite dancing, live music, and visuals for this riveting performance.
Choreographed and performed by Bageshree Vaze alongside a team of masterful musicians and dancers, Paratopias pays homage to the St. John’s Hindu Temple in which Vaze discovered Indian dance.
“This was dancing where you kept noticing further felicities of style. Sometimes during a phrase Vaze would bring her arms into a formal arc, and then, a beat later, turn her head and eyes to resolve the position and bring it into focus. It felt like an archer lining up a target, then with a mere glance firing. […] Yet just as often she would bring arms, head and eyes all into the same perfect alignment on the same beat. Here was spot-on archery without preparation, striking effortlessly home.” – Alistair Macaulay, The New York Times
