Kalanidhi Announces International Festival of Indian Dance - Live and Live-Streamed!

16th Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance: Whirling Streams

Goes Global with Live and Live-Streamed Performances,

Symposium, and Film Retrospective

March 28 to April 2 at Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

February 10, 2017, Toronto, ON: The 16th Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance: Whirling Streams is dedicated to Sudha Khandwani, Founder and Artistic Director of Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada, who passed away in November of 2016, leaving an extraordinary history of international Indian Dance through her fifteen archived festivals (1993 to 2014). With the passing of Sudha, her sister, acclaimed dancer and choreographer Menaka Thakkar, has agreed to finish the Festival as its Artistic Director with the intention to continue the work of spreading a passion for Indian Dance as an art form.

The Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance, Whirling Streams, starts Tuesday March 28 and runs to Sunday April 2, 2017 at Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre. Tickets will be on sale mid-February. All events on stage  at Harbourfront Centre will also be live streamed and performances will be available at select film theatres such as Cineplex during the Festival and available on-line over the internet as well.

Performances: The live and live-streamed Festival will present over 40 dancers from Canada and India and feature the classical and contemporary dance styles of Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kathak, Chhau, and Modern over the course of the six days. Performers include Menaka Thakkar Dance Collective (Toronto), Santosh Nair Sadhya Dance (India),  Bhavajan Kumar Dancers (Toronto), and solos by Menaka Thakkar (Toronto), Kasturi Mishra (Ottawa), Sujata Mohapatra (India), Parul Gupta (Toronto), Riya Alika Mittal (Edmonton), Nivedha Ramalingham (Toronto), Monica Shah (Vancouver), Mark Medrano with Roger Sinha  (Montreal), Reshmi Chetram (Toronto), and more to be  announced. 

Retrospective and Symposiums - A "DO NOT MISS" event at the Festival will be a demonstration/symposium on the use of technology for teaching Indian dance on-line, hosted by Menaka Thakkar that takes place on Sunday April 2. This will be followed by a one-hour retrospective film on the history of contemporary Indian Dance through the eyes of past Kalanidhi Festivals. The retrospective will be followed in the afternoon by a Symposium discussion on Contemporary Indian Dance happening in India. FREE  ADMISSION to all events.

10am - 12pm Demonstration/Symposium on Technology;

2pm - 3pm Film History Retrospective of Contemporary Indian Dance;

3pm - 5pm Symposium on Contemporary Indian Dance happening in India.

Pre-Festival Events - Leading up to the Festival, Kalanidhi paid tribute to Sudha with live-streamed events on December 18, 2016 and January 22, 2017 that featured  memorable performances and new works from past participants, and will do so again on March 5 at Menaka Thakkar Dance Studio at 4:30pm. Encore performances of the Pre-Festival Events are available on the Kalanidhi website at www.kalanidhifinearts.org

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PRESS CONFERENCE: Tuesday February 28 at 11am

  You are invited to attend a Press Conference

IN PERSON at the Menaka Thakkar Dance Company studio

11 Glen Cameron Road, Unit #1, Thornhill, ON

or

participate ON LINE through YouTube using Skype.

Please register at admin@kalanidhifinearts.org to receive a passcode.

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The Artistic Director for the Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance is Menaka Thakkar.
The Executive Director is Rasesh Thakkar. The Festival Manager & Marketing Director is Karen Dempster and the India Office Director is Abdullah Khandwani.

The 16th Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance is generously supported by: Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and donations.

FESTIVAL DETAILS:

16th Annual Kalanidhi International Festival of Indian Dance: Whirling Streams

Tuesday March 28-Sunday April 2, 2017 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre

Location: Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queens Quay W., 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON

Show Times: Tuesday to Friday 7:30pm; Saturday 10:30am, 1:30pm & 7:30pm, Sunday 10am, 2pm, 3pm

Tickets: Tickets will be on sale mid-February. Call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416-973-4000 OR purchase online at www.kalanidhifinearts.org OR email tickets@harbourfrontcentre.com.

The Box Office opens 2 hours before evening performances and 1 hour before Matinees for in-person purchase.

Ticket Prices:

For LIVE SHOWS at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre: $38 - $25;

7 Day Passes: $175 - $119; 4 Day Passes: $120 - $90; Sunday Retrospective and Symposiums: FREE.

(Discounts for seniors, students, arts workers and groups of 10 or more.)

All events at Harbourfront Centre will be LIVE STREAMED and performances will be available at select film theatres such as Cineplex during the Festival and available on-line over the internet.

For live and/or encore STREAMING in public places such as a Cineplex theatre: $20 single ticket;

Home viewing on internet devices single ticket $10; Live streaming locations and tickets will be available late February through the www.kalanidhifinearts.org website. For groups  (of 10 or more) in an informal setting of a studio or a party room: Enquire at 647-215-8620.

For more information, connect with Kalanidhi : 

Website: www.kalanidhifinearts.org ;  Facebook: Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada ;

YouTube:  Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada .