Double Bill - Hema Barathy Palani And Subhash Viman

Trikonanga

Hemabharathy Palani was conferred the ‘Public’s First Choice Award’, for her contemporary solo piece Trikonanga at the Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival held in Struttgart, Germany in 2013. Subsequently it toured India and Brazil and had sold out performances at the Dance Umbrella Festival in London in October 2015. She also performed the work at the Critical Path in Australia in November 2015. Trikonanga was widely acclaimed by both the audience and the press alike.

Trikonanga explores three essential dimensions that signify Hema's unique movement language and approach to dance. Traversing diverse emotional states with distilled focus and tenderness interrupted by outbursts of energy, the piece combines distinct physicalities of three dance forms - Bharatanatyam, Contemporary dance and Ballet - which are part of the choreographer's journey in dance. Bridging the three pivotal regions of the body-head, navel and toe - the movement leaves traces of triangles in the body and in space.

Alluding to the concept of Navarasa (nine emotional states) from classical Indian dance forms Trikonanga has nine passages and employ the three major devises of enactment – Angika Abhinaya (physical expression), Vachika Abhinaya (Oral expression) and Satvika Abhinaya (inner emotional expression).

Hemabharathy Palani

Hemabharathy Palani is an award-winning choreographer/dancer, working as the Rehearsal Director of the Attakkalari Repertory Company, Bangalore. She has trained for several years in the Contemporary Dance, Kalaripayattu, Yoga, and Capoeira at Attakkalari under various teachers. She has also received training in Kuchipudi under Gurus Vyjayanthi Kashi and Sunanda Devi, and in Bharatanyam under Guru Minal Prabhu.

Hemabharathy has performed in all of Attakkalari's multi-media dance productions at most of the major European festivals. She has participated in several international collaborations, residencies and choreography projects as the rehearsal director of Attakkalari Repertory Company as well as in her personal capacity as a choreographer. Hemabharathy received the Public's First Choice Award for her the choreography and performance of her work Trikonanga at the Finale of the 18th International Solo Tanz-Theatre Festival, Struttgart, Germany in 2013.

Earlier she was awarded the Robert Bosch Young Choreographer's Award - 2009, which enabled her to create Uruvam. For her work in Kuchipudi (classical Indian dance), she received the Priyadarshini Award from the All India Federation; she was also conferred the title of an ‘A’ grade artiste (in a group performance with Guru Vyjayanthi Kashi) by the national television channel, Doordarshan in 1999.

In August 2011, Hema was selected to participate in Sadler’s Wells (London) Summer University programme that provided an exceptional opportunity along with other emerging professionals to work with award winning choreographer and author Jonathan Burrows for a fortnight of intensive talks, discussions, lectures and workshops over the course of 4 years.

Apart from her work in contemporary dance, Hema also performs and teaches classical Indian dance forms Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. Hema was featured on a show – 'Kultur I Farozonen' on the SVT Channel, Sweden.

She directed, choreographed and performed for a contemporary dance film - 'Music to Move to' produced by Fuel Theatre, London; a project commissioned by the Dance Umbrella and Space. She has also worked as an assistant choreographer for various South Indian films, including the Kamal Hassan starrer Uttama Villain.