City College Center for the Arts

in partnership with

Battery Dance

presents

Durgesh Gangani Dance

Monday, November 4, 2019  /  6pm

Free with RSVP at www.citycollegecenterforthearts.org

Compton Goethals Hall / Studio Theatre 318 (3^rd Floor) / West 140^th Street & Amsterdam Avenue

Durgesh Gangani, the youngest dancer ever to receive India’s Yuva Bismallah Khan Award for artistic excellence, will present a concert of Kathak dance with live musical accompaniment by Dibyarka Chatterjee on tabla and Rohan Misra on sarangi. 

North Indian Kathak, one of India’s distinctive classical dance forms, is a rare amalgam of both Hindu and Muslim cultures.  It was practiced in the Mughal Palaces and also in Hindu Temples. Kathak dancers tell various stories through their hand movements and facial expressions and play out rhythmic patterns with their remarkable footwork. Durgesh Gangani will build and blend a narrative that will invite uninitiated audiences into the world he interprets, weaving the audience into the fabric as it builds, allowing them to walk away with a better understanding of Kathak dance and the place of dance as a story-telling tool.