ABOUT
inDANCE is a progressive Canadian dance company whose works spans a large choreographic trajectory of courtesan-inspired Bharatanatyam to global contemporary dance works to queer dance creations. It presents works that are a potent, distilled synthesis of artistic director Hari Krishnan’s Asian and western artistic personae. Probing the burdens and legacies of popular representations of “tradition,” inDANCE disrupts the familiar and evolves new meanings for the archaic, propelling the company on a trajectory that subverts normative political and social life-worlds. The company pioneers work that is unconventional and transgressive, producing eccentric, sensual, and virtuosic dance that confronts dominant discourses on global culture. inDANCE’s work is presented at prestigious international festivals and venues.
Hari Krishnan - Artistic Director
Hari Krishnan is a Bessie (New York City) and Dora (Toronto) Award nominee dance artist, scholar and teacher. He is the artistic director of Toronto-based company inDANCE, in addition to being Chair and Professor of Dance in the Department of Dance at Wesleyan University. His choreography explores post-colonial complexities in South Asian dance and queer themes, as well as the intersection of traditional and global contemporary dance forms. His extensive body of work is based on critical perspectives on Bharatanatyam, fused with contemporary global dance styles and postmodern social critique. His scholarly interests include queer identities in dance performance, contemporary dance from global perspectives, colonialism, post-colonialism and Indian dance, Bharatanatyam in Tamil cinema and the history of courtesan dance traditions in South India. His monograph, Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) won a special citation from the 2020 de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award Committee of the Dance Studies Association. The book has been hailed as “an invaluable addition to the scholarship on Bharatanatyam.”
Artistic Director: Hari Krishnan
Producer: Shana Hillman
Research Associate: Davesh Soneji
Artistic Associate: Srividya Natarajan
Rehearsal Directors: Roney Lewis, Vinod Para, Paul Charbonneou and Nalin Bisnath
Musicians: Vaaraki Wijayaraj-Thavakumar, Kajan Pararasasegaram and Mithuran Manogaran
Resident Designer: Rex (Rajavairan Rajendran)
Web Content Editor: Glenn Teneycke
Video Editor: Boyd Bonitzke
Marketing and PR: Sue Edworthy
For further information about inDANCE please contact indance@gmail.com
