Divya Katsuri: To Varnam… With Love

Thursday 24 Feb | 7:30pm | Pay What You Decide

Exquisite performer Divya Kasturi unpacks the Varnam, a ‘piece de resistance’ of a Bharatanatyam repertoire performance. Personal experience, artistic lineage, historical nostalgia and reverence for tradition are explored by way of dolls, humour, singing and beautiful South Asian and western choreography.

Divya Kasturi has worked with leading British theatre company Complicite and in the past year choreographed a musical, selected for award-winning artists’ Akram Khan and Wayne McGregor residencies and performed in India. Divya is formally trained in Indian classical music (carnatic) and has lent vocals for internationally acclaimed composers: Sir Paul McCartney, Nitin Sawhney and Maestro Ilayaraja.

To Varnam…with Love acknowledges funding from Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants and support from Choreodrome at The Place.

“Beautiful to watch; sometimes even painful in the bitter/sweet way that love often makes us feel.”

Clare Winter, Trestle Arts Base

Thursday 24 Feb | 7:30pm | Pay What You Decide

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