Kathak à Kontre-Kourants
— Isabelle Anna - Paris, France
About the Artist
Isabelle Anna – Paris, France
Born in an artistic environment and specially dedicated to the performing arts of India, Isabelle Anna started learning Bharata Natyam at the age of five. Along with a solid musical training, she studied classical ballet and drama until her entrance to the university where he develops his interest in literature and languages Foreign. In 1998, she discovered Kathak dance (Lucknow tradition) with Sharmila Sharma, disciple of Birju Maharaj, teacher at Centre Mandapa, Paris, founded and run by her parents.
She now runs Centre Mandapa and shares herself between Kathak recitals, her own choreographies and teaching.
On the program, 3 solos performed by Isabelle Anna
– Traditional Indian Kathak, where, as here with a recorded soundtrack, the dancer dancer is bound by a certain time discipline, in the version with onstage , she leads the way
– Ravel’s Mon Bolero, a Kathak revisiting of the famous piece with imagination and virtuosity
with imagination and virtuosity – a fitting end to the story;
– and finally, Le Bal des Mots, which, to an extremely elaborate soundtrack of
alphabets, babbling and diction exercises, also in Kathak, illustrates texts and onomatopoeia.
And at the end of the performance, Q & A session to converse with the interpreter-choreographer.