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There is something in dance that regulates you,
Allowing you to express your feelings as you move.
You can find anger and love, joy and grief
The novel and the mundane -
All in one song

-Safak Timur, New York Times reporter

Anita R Ratnam
July has been 31 days of ceaseless unrest. Ablaze with arguments and heated rhetoric about issues of representation and race swapping. About translations, cinematic liberty and appropriation. The rumble became a roar with the student unrests in India that started in with a leaked examination paper and the subsequent student protests in New Delhi has rocked the government and the ripples continue as I write this monthly message.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES


When dancing is a pleasure for birds as well
- Dr. Arshiya Sethi
Steeped as we are in our love for dance, we fail to recognise sometimes that we are not alone in the dancing world.

New York City, Dance Capital of the World
- Janaki Patrik
Moving to New York City in summer 1971, I enrolled at the Merce Cunningham Studio.




BIRTHDAY WISHES
Shovana Narayan: Sept 2
Kumkum Mohanty: Sept 10
Bharat Sharma: Sept 13
Rajika Puri: Sept 14
Alarmel Valli: Sept 14
Vanashree Rao: Sept 16
Kasi Aysola: Sept 23
Jhelum Paranjape: Sept 24
Ananda Shankar Jayant: Sept 27
Navia Natarajan: Sept 27
Meera Sreenarayanan: Sept 29
Amrita Lahiri: Sept 30
Indira Kadambi: Sept 30

QUOTE
To move, to express, and to create dance is one of the most satisfying sensations a person can feel.
- Daniel Ulbricht, New York City Ballet principal




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