The Spilling Ink Project
Focus Work of Art from the 2009-2010 school year
Arts in Education Partnership
India-based dancer Nalini Prakash and Vijay Palaparty, from Washington, DC, present Samhita: Conversations in Dance, a work based in the South Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. Samhita means 'joining' or 'collecting' in India's classical language, Sanskrit. Audiences will witness the duet artistically converse in the kinetic, linear Bharatanatyam form while also using intricate hand gesture and facial expression languages. They will tell rich stories of Hindu deities through a presentation woven with moving rhythms and colorful music in the classical South Indian Carnatic form.