This week, Festival Director Anne Morris chats with Aparna Keshaviah and Audrey Baran, two of the 20 choreographers selected to make a micro dance, a 30-60 second dance film, for the NC Dance Festival’s virtual premiere back in October. For this project, each choreographer was paired with a “choreography buddy”. The intention here was not to create their microdances together, but to provide some creative support throughout the process, and also to get to know artists working in other ways or other parts of the state. Audrey and Aparna were choreography buddies, so we’ll hear how they connected for this project, and how their dances evolved in very different directions. Aparna works from a foundation of Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance, so we’ll discuss how that influenced her micro-dance, and how Audrey drew from a contemporary dance background for her work.
Links in this episode:
Watch Audrey and Aparna’s dance films: click here.
Watch “Converge”, the dance film created from all 20 microdances here.
Connect with Audrey Baran on IG: @barandance
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