Current Events
Entry Fee
£8 Adults £4 children (free for under 4)
12 South Norwood Hill
London SE25 6AB
Book at
stanleyarts.org/event/holi-celebration/
Sunday, 7 April
2-8 pm
2-5pm – Workshops
- Collage and installation with Norwood Junk Action
- Kite Making with Divya Somasundar
- Paper flower making with Daksha Nani
- Indian Wooden Block Printing with Joanna
- Rangoli (decorative pattern making) with grains and seeds with Anita
- Floor Mural painting with Dani
- Colouring in with Henry
- Flamenco with Jose Agudo
- Bollywood Dance with Senjuti
- Hip-Hop with Caramel Soldier
2-5pm – Activities
- Photo Booth
- Mehndi
- Story Telling with Meghna and Ananya
2-8pm Bhumika, Film by Arpana Dance Company
2-8pm Food by Tava Shop
3.30-4.30pm – Performances
- CYTO
- Birdgang
- Beeja dance groups
- Paurnami
- Upahaar
5-7pm – Dance Performances
- Ashwini Kalsekar, Kirti Kala Mandir – Kathak
- Nital Dance – Garba & Bollywood
- Upahaar – Bharatanatyam
- Beeja – Bharatanatyam & Bollywood
- Arambh Kathak Pathshala – Kathak
- Soulma Hossaini – Mauritian Dance
- Team Anubhava – Bharatanatyam
- Debanjali – Manipuri
- Birdgang – Hip Hop
7-8pm – Party
2-14 April – Exhibition
- Colour – Photographs by Vipul Sangoi
Current tour schedule
for Choogh Choogh
Sat 23 March
Beeja was started by Anusha Subramanyam – dancer, choreographer, teacher and dance movement therapist – who is seen as one of the most exciting exponents of bharatanatyam working ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of its tradition. Her work is trans-cultural and inter-generational. She has also worked extensively with people who are differently abled.
Beeja means ‘seed’ in Hindi. In keeping with its name, Beeja aims to generate new ideas, new understanding and fresh creative forms, particularly through the way that it allows us to be alert to, and take tremendous pleasure in living organisms and biological webs of relatedness. Like a seed underneath the soil collecting all sorts of nutrients, Beeja works as a collective and draws on the skills of its members to develop a distinctive way of working that offers an all-round experience. It is about life’s choreography.
Over the years Beeja has performed in mainstream venues and in non-conventional venues like museums, hospitals, schools, village halls and other public spaces. It aims to make bharatanatyam accessible to a wider audience and encourage interaction with the artists and the dance form.
Beeja curates and produces Dance Festival Croydon, curates dance for Croydon Mela.
Beeja’s offers a range of options — performances, workshops, residencies and regular dance classes. Beeja, in collaboration with some of its partners, also offers workshops and residencies in ‘Bollywood’, Indian folk, creative movement and other Indian classical styles.
From the Heart
This choreographic work challenges notions of normal and abnormal, drawing inspiration from Anusha Subramanyam’s therapeutic and creative movement work with people with physical and mental challenges. It is an exploration of the dance that they created, using movement...
Fleeting Moments
Fleeting Moments is a work conceived by Bishaka Sarker. Photo ©Vipul Sangoi
Draught of Fishes and Other Stories
This site specific performance was an encounter between Indian classical dance and the most celebrated surviving artworks of the Italian High Renaissance. Anusha performed infront of two of Raphael’s monumental biblical scenes interpreting and drawing out the stories...