Kathak at the Crossroads - International Kathak Festival and Symposium September 28, 2006

Chitresh Das Dance Company, Chhandam Nritya Bharati (India) and Chhandika (Boston) present Kathak at the Crossroads—International Kathak Festival and Symposium. Kathak at the Crossroads will be one of the largest Indian classical performing arts events in U.S. History. Held over three days, the Festival will feature performances by over fifty leading and emerging Kathak artists from India and around the world. The Symposium will be a vital, field-wide discussion about the Kathak dance tradition, innovation and the impact of the emerging global culture.

The Daytime symposium features intimate performances by some of Kathak’s leading gurus, lectures and panel discussions with the foremost Kathak masters and twelve scholars from the U.S., India, Europe and Canada and an insight into Kathak’s courtesan traditions with one of the last living courtesans, Madhuri Devi Singh. Evening performances will feature Kathak’s rising stars and some of Kathak’s greatest masters.

Full registration for the three days and evenings ranges from $225 to $475 and evening performance tickets range from $25 to $100. For information on full festival and symposium registration contact [email protected], 415-333-9000 or www.kathak.org. For information on evening performance tickets only, contact Yerba Buena Center for the Arts box office at www.ybca.org or 415.978.ARTS.

Official Website: http://www.kathak.org