Dance Immersion Program

A space where renowned artists share their vision,
passion and practice of classical dance.

The Dance Immersion Program endeavors to create a space where renowned artists share their vision, passion and practice of classical dance. The program provides an oasis where dancers with serious intent can imbibe, observe, question and reflect on dance. It attempts to create an invigorated space for lateral thinking and an in-depth study of various aspects of dance to help broaden one’s vision.

The Trust hopes to nurture and inspire the next generation of dancers and keep the intrinsic flow of tradition vibrant and salient.

The faculty of senior artists and scholars are invited to take sessions on dance technique, sensitivity to poetry, art appreciation and music for dance. There is an emphasis on creative process, body conditioning and an orientation to other classical styles. DIP is thought-provoking pushing the dancers who attend to look beyond the literal, the clichéd and the ordinary.

DIP Chennai – 2016
DIP Bangalore – 2018
DIP Pondicherry – 2019
DIP Pondicherry – 2022

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  • It was a tremendous opportunity to be able to hear Smt Jamuna Krishnan speak at length about the poetry and dissect the various attributes that go into transferring this poem from words to abhinaya and movement. This workshop is just like a warm-up session into what seems to be an ocean of poetry and metaphors.

    SHWETA PRACHANDE
    DANCE WORKSHOP | 2018

  • It truly was a great opportunity to have insight into Hindi poets. Jamuna Ji's choice of items for the workshop was both simple and intense which enabled me to have a diversified exposure to the subject. These thoughtful workshops which are so unique but so apt and much needed for the dancers of Chennai to explore a whole new world out there.

    JAYANTHI SRIVATSAN
    DANCE WORKSHOP | 2018

  • The workshop has opened windows into the world of Vidyapathi, Kabir and Surdas for me. One observed Abhinaya ranging from Bhakti to vatsalyam to sringara. The understanding that poems by the North Indian Poets are not very different from the poetry of the Kshetragna or Sarangapani or the Tamil Saints, all steeped in Srigara or vatsatyam or Bhakti. With the language of Bharatanatyam, how then should one treat the music and the interpretation to suggest a difference, if at all.

    LAKSHMI PARTHASARATHY ATHREYA
    DANCE WORKSHOP | 2018

  • This workshop fuels the inner churning of serious upcoming dancers. All the sessions were like fodder for the mind.

    ABHINAYA ROHAN
    DANCE IMMERSION | 2018

  • For me, one of the biggest takeaways was a peek into how to use the dance vocabulary and technique without being bound by it but to look a little beyond it.

    DEEPA RAGHAVAN
    DANCE IMMERSION | 2018