The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore announces a Call for Applications for a Teaching Residency project in collaboration with Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts.
Teaching Residents will be expected to put in 15-24 hours of teaching per week and use the rest of the time to explore the local dance scene and work on their own creative practice. The duration of the residency will be 3 to 6 months.
This residency is a fresh initiative, but over the years Goethe has brought several important German choreographers to Attakkalari for workshops/residencies, both sides always benefiting immensely from the association. Among these are Samir Akika, Christine Bürkle, Anne Linsel, Antje Pfundtner, Niels (Storm) Robitzky, Richard Siegal, Meryl Tankard and Nora Zuniga-Shaw.

Hema Bharathy Palani, senior dancer and rehearsal director of the Attakkalari Repertory Company, has been invited to be an artist in residence at the Open Studio, Ballet National De Marseille in France. She will be there from April to May 2013. This residency was an outcome of her presentation at Platform13 during the Attakkalari India Biennial 2013. She will be working on her piece Trikonanga (Trikona- Triangle, Anga- Body).
During this residency Hema will be given the resources and mentorship to develop her piece and will also make a short Studio Presentation at the Ballet National De Marseille end of May.

The Attakkalari Repertory Company will be performing MeiDhwani - Echoes of the Body on 26th April 2013. The performance will be held at Ishanya Mall, near the Lohegaon Airport, Pune
The seating will be on a first come first served basis. Passes will be available at Kala Chaya Campus, Max Mueller Bhavan and Alliance Francaise de Pune.

Diya Naidu and Ronita Mookerji, senior dancers of the Attakkalari Repertory Company, will be presenting an excerpt from Bardo Beings - in Kolkata at Jamsteady Princeton Club and Ahuja Museum for Arts on 22nd March 2013.
The piece is choreographed by Diya Naidu under Attakkalari's Young Choreographers Platform.

Diya Naidu, senior member of the Attakkalari Repertory Company will present her solo work Nadir at IDF 2013 Design Matters! on March 16th at NCPA, Mumbai. Diya is an emerging choreographer and was the joint winner of the Robert Bosch Young Choreographers Award in 2010. Nadir was created under the auspices of this grant. The piece explores ideas of isolation and the inescapable fact of bondage within separation.

The Attakkalari Repertory Company did a presentation at the Attakkalari Studio on February 24th 2013, for top corporate executives from around the world.
The presentation, broken up into four parts, comprised Bharatnatyam, Kalarippayattu, Kathak and Contemporary dance. Each piece began with a short introduction by the dancers on the form and its history. This was then demonstrated by a group of three or four dancers. The 45 minute long presentation was followed by an hour long interaction with the dancers.
The group, comprising corporate executives from USA, Italy, Qatar, Kenya, Argentina to name a few countries, had a very detailed and involved discussion with the dancers. They were very keen in understanding the various dance forms and the training process of the dancers