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Lingalayam Dance Company
– Kuruntokai

By Lingalayam Dance Company
Artistic Director Anandavalli

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates ON HOLD
  • Duration 60 minutes (approx) No interval
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  • In association with
    • Lingalayam Dance Company

***Due to the current COVID lockdown, Belvoir’s Festival of Everything is currently on hold and we are hoping to schedule a shorter run of the Festival later this year, more details to be announced soon. Ticketholders, we have credited the price of your ticket to your Belvoir account, ready to book tickets when new dates are released where you will receive priority booking.

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Stay safe, we hope to be seeing you in the theatre soon.***

Lingalayam Dance Company, founded in 1996 by Anandavalli (Counting and Cracking) in association with Belvoir present Kuruntokai – The Interior Landscape.

Kuruntokai – The Interior Landscape is an intimate contemplation on our relationship to nature. Using poems from the 13th century Tamil anthology, ‘Kuruntokai’, as the allegorical thread, the work traverses diverse landscapes mapping nature to our own deep interior emotional terrain. Love is the central axis on which themes of union, separation, longing and betrayal are spun into form through dance, projected Australian landscapes and music. These elements marry to evoke both the sensual and transcendent, parochial and universal, in a contemporary reflection of our fraught existence in a dynamic yet ever fragile environment.

Juxtaposing the structural clarity of Bharathanatyam with the sensuous fluidity of Kuchipudi, (two of the seven classical Indian dance forms) and accompanied by a live orchestra embodying the Carnatic music and rhythms of South India, Lingalayam Dance Company present Kuruntokai-The Interior Landscape.

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Team

Concept & Choreography Anandavalli
Composer/Arranger Bhagavatalu Seetarama Sarma
Video Artist Iqbal Barkat
Lighting Designer Neil Simpson
Costume designed by Anandavalli
Costumes executed by D.K. Dance Costume Tailors
Rehearsal Assistant Brindha Srinivasan

Cast

Lingalayam Dance Company
Abi Singham
Asha Mistry Kaushik
Gayathrie Isaac
Shalini Parthiban
Vaishnavi Sothirajah

Guest Dancers
Seran Sribalan
Aruthy Kumanan

Musicians
Nattuvangam (cymbals) Anandavalli
Vocals Aruna Parthiban
Violin Kiran Mudigonda
Mridangam (percussion) Janakan Raj
Flute Venkhatesh Sritharan

  • Running Time and Content Warnings

    Running Time: 60 minutes (approx)

    Content warnings will be uploaded as they are advised.

    Should you wish to speak to a member of staff regarding running times, content warnings or any other show related queries, our box office can be contacted on 02 9699 3444.

  • COVID Updates

    Due to the current COVID lockdown, Belvoir’s Festival of Everything is currently on hold and we are hoping to schedule a shorter run of the Festival later this year, more details to be announced soon. Ticketholders, we have credited the price of your ticket to your Belvoir account, ready to book tickets when new dates are released where you will receive priority booking.

    If you would prefer to receive a refund or donate the cost of your ticket to Belvoir, let us know via this online form.

    Stay safe, we hope to be seeing you in the theatre soon.

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