An Evening of Classical Bharatanatyam

by the legendary dancer/choreographer

Padma Bhushan

Alarmel Valli

"Now, as always, there are many gifted dancers in India, but Alarmel Valli is a paragon.
Alarmel Valli is that rare thing--the solo performer who puts all others out of mind".

-- John Russell, The New York Times

One Performance Only!!

7 p.m., Sunday, July 15th, 2007

The Southern Theater
1420 Washington Avenue South
Seven Corners
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tickets: $26

Box Office: 612-340-1725

Internationally acclaimed as a creative artist whose work reveals the infinite spaces within the traditional form, Alarmel Valli bases her dance on the principle that Bharatanatyam is a superbly evocative language,
where the dancer who has mastered and internalised
the idiom can write her personal dance poetry.
She writes, "Dance, for me is sheer joy.
At its most intense level, it is a joyous prayer
with my very being."

Widely lauded for creating an international awareness of Bharatanatyam as a dynamic, continuously evolving
dance form, she has extended the frontiers of her
dance tradition to evolve her own distinctive style,
which has been described as “uniquely individualistic… an effortless synchronisation of apparent contradictions - linearity and lyricism, symmetry and sinuosity,
precision and poetry."

Ms. Valli is a recipient of the highly prestigious
Padma Bhushan award from the President of India,
as well as the award of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, one of the highest distinctions conferred by the Government of France. She has performed at
the world's leading venues, including Theatre de la Ville (Paris), Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow),
the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.),
the Venice Biennale, and the Silver Jubilee Celebration of Pina Bausch's Wuppertal Dance Theatre (Germany).
In 1994, the Israel Festival (Jerusalem) recognized her
as one of the three best soloists in the world.

 

"Valli holds the stage with the presence of a Nureyev and the professionalism and technique of a Baryshnikov."

--The Montreal Gazette