NEXT! Workshops at Judson Church. Dance In The Round with Parijat Desai
Circle dance workshop for all ages, no experience necessary. Free events. All are welcome!
When: Friday, May 27 I 6p-7.15p
Dance In The Round (DITR) is a program based on circle dances from Gujarat, India, called Garba and Raas. Our aim is to make these wonderful traditions more widely available and harness the power of the circle-dance experience to support health, well-being, inclusion, and community building among people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds.
India-born , U.S.-raised choreographer/dancer Parijat Desai (b. 1970) creates hybrids of contemporary and Indian classical dance, martial art, theater, and other forms. The New York Times has said Parijat “moves with lush attack” and called her work “a seamless blending of new and old.” Parijat (BA, Stanford University, anthropology with honors; MFA, UCLA, choreography) began her company in Los Angeles in 2000, then continued in New York City 2004–2013. Since then, she been developing independent projects with diverse collaborators. She has also been an artist-in-residence through Movement Research (2016–17), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2009–12), and Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts (2009). She has been awarded artistic residencies through Colorado College (2017), the Fulbright/Nehru India Program (2013–14), Dance Center/Columbia College (2013), Skirball Cultural Center/LA (2007), and Queens Museum/Dance in Queens (2005). Parijat has received commissions from Grand Performances (LA), Danspace Project, and Harlem Stage. She won the Lester Horton Dance Award for Individual Performance, and NYFA BUILD, LMCC Creative Communities Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and Arts International Grant. She was nominated for a 2019 United State Artists Fellowship. Parijat’s work has been presented at venues including La Mama, Danspace Project, Asia Society, Queens Museum, PS122, and PioneerWorks (NYC); Skirball Cultural Center, California Plaza, and J. Paul Getty Center (LA); ODC Theater and Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); Denver Art Museum; Northwestern University (Chicago); The Dance Centre (Vancouver); and National Centre for the Performing Arts (Mumbai). Parijat teaches contemporary dance and contemporary bharata natyam, and leads Dance In The Round, workshops for all ages based on Garba and Raas, circle dances from Gujarat, India. She has taught at various colleges and school and at studios including Mark Morris Dance Center and Peridance. She has also taught actors through Theater Mitu New York Artist Intensive and Cornerstone Theater (LA). in September 2018, Parijat will teach an intensive through Stanford University in New York.
All guests will be required to be fully vaccinated (please bring proof of vaccination). All visitors will be required to wear a face-covering at all times while they are at Judson Church. In addition, all surfaces are being sanitized on a regular basis. Please note the performers will perform maskless, but they are fully vaccinated and observing New York State’s Department of Health protocols for in-person events.
DIRECTIONS: Judson Church
The entrance is located at 243 Thompson, New York, New York, 10012
Subway: A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street or N, Q, R to NYU 8th Street.
Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is by way of 243 Thompson St. Use the lift to get to the Meeting Room on Level 3 or our accessible bathrooms on Level B (basement). Return to Level 1 for street access back to the corner of West 4th & Thompson St.