Basant | A Tale of the Season depicted through Kathak | Pooja Pant | TEDxEMWS

Narrating a metaphorical story of Basant: When the earth continues to spin and the cool winter nights thaw into warm spring mornings. The shinning sun melts frozen promises into hopeful realities. The bright blue sky seeps through her awakened eye, and the earth, like a maiden blooms with happiness. The earth smiles, her cheeks stained with the pink of the lotuses. She dances through this season of #spring as she meets her Ritu Raj, the glorious Basant. From the shadow to the light, this performance is a story of her.
Brief about Pooja Pant:
A performer, choreographer and founder-director of Pooja Pant Dance Company, Pooja Pant has travelled across India and the world to perform at various venues like Contacting the world UK, Kala Ghoda, Hema Malini's Jayasmriti festival, Skills Development-Doha, Naval Kathak Utsav- Delhi, Royal Opera House- Muscat, Zorlu Centre- Turkey, London Palladium among many. She has acquired many accolades for her choreography in the musical 'Umrao Jaan Ada' produced by music composers Salim Sulaiman and is the first Indian classical dancer to have performed at Lawrence Olivier awards in London. She has been critically appreciated for her performance in the musical ‘Beyond Bollywood’ completing over 200 shows through Europe, UK and Algeria. A Masters in Kathak, she has been awarded prestigious awards namely the ‘Pandit V.D. Paluskar Award', `Menaka’ trophy, `Singaar Mani’, 'Nirtya Nipun', 'Sujata Natu Award', 'Kala Ravi' and Gold medal at the National level. She is the choreographer of the Amit Saadh and Jim Saarbh starrer film ‘Pune Highway’ and also of Rajit Kapoor and Shernaaz Patel’s ‘Pigeon’. Her most recent choreography is for the web series- Dil Dosti Dilema for Amazon Prime This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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I love that dance 🎉🎊🎈🥰🥹🤍💃🎶

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