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Devi Girish

Kuchipudi dancer

Devi Girish
   Biography
Girish Chandra and Devi Girish has an accentuating academic as well professional record and Devi continues her research along with performances and teaching, where as Girish concentrates on choreography, performances and teaching. Girish is an innovator par excellence, with an innate interest in the technical aspects supporting the classical dance form and Devi combines artistic presentation with an academic bend. With this combination, the duo together explore the intricacies of Kuchipudi, experiment with the body extensions, by relating it to the theoretical constructs and travel along the ascend as a learning journey. They have created their own niche in the field of Kuchipudi tracing, together, a performing career of more than 9 years and
individually more than 15 years.

Girish and Devi are professionally trained in Kuchipudi under the guidance and tutelage of Dr. Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry and Prof. Jonnalagadda Anuradha for more than 10 years. In the course of time they have developed their own repertory in Kuchipudi, which is well acclaimed . They, along with their group, have travelled and performed widely across, both on national and international platforms. Along with the performances, they have been invited to conduct Kuchipudi workshop by various performing centres in Kerala, where they deal
with the technical and practical intricacies involved in Kuchipudi.

The choreographic works of Girish and the innovative choreographic ventures has set up a benchmark of its own in the creative space. Girish and Devi, along with Aathmakalpa Kuchipudi Nrithyagram, have given many performances
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   Career
Artistically together, accoladed with                 
1 Emapanelment of Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, and have been graded as "Promising Category Artists" to work with the Ministry of Culture in the " Festivals of India Abroad" as part of focused strategy for strengthening
International Cultural Relations and enhancing India’s soft power.

2 Their International performance at Nay Pyi Daw, Myanmar is the first performance ever staged in the capital city after its formation in 2005. And they are fortunate enough to have felicitated by H.E. Aung Sann Sui Kyi, the nobel laurete, herself for their performance on 15th August, 2017.

3 Graded artistes of Doordarshan (Hyderabad)

4 Masters in Performing Arts, specialising in Kuchpudi from Dept of Dance, Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts, University of Hyderabad.

5 Founder members of Aathmakalpa Kuchipudi Nrithyagram, where they impart training in Kuchipudi as well as focuses to accentuate the minute nuances of the art form propagating its beauty.

Prestigious Festivals (International and National)  
 
1. Performed for Nishagandhi Dance Festival conducted by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture by Govt of Kerala, in January 2018.

2. Performed for Jugalbandhi Festival conducted under the aegies of Soorya Dance
and Music Festival, in December 2017.

3. Performed for the Guru Parampara Dance Festival organised by the Visakha Art and Dance Association in association with the Tourism and Culture department of Andhra Pradesh in Visakhapatanam on December, 2017.

4. They completed their International performance series in Mandalay and Nay pyi
Daw at Myanmar. The performance and team were led by Girish and Devi for their production named “Arjunah Dasanameeyam” and was premiered in the Festival Of India, Myanmar at Mandalay on 13th Aug, 2017 and Nay Pyi Daw on 15th August 2017. The festival is conducted by the Ministry of Culture, New Delhi under the umbrella term Festival of India, Abroad, a project for strengthening International cultural relations and enhancing India’s soft power on the eve of the 70th Indian Independence Day celebration. The production is originally designed in Sanskrit language and it is a traverse through the essence of Mahabharatha through ten names of Arjuna.

5.  They performed for the Navrathri Dance and Music Festival conducted by South Zone Cultural Centre, at Srisailam, on October 2016.

6.  Performed for the Yakshagana festival, Natya Sampradhaya conducted by Sangeet Natak Akademi and IDRTC Centre in New Delhi on October 2016.

7.  Performed for Uttar Purva Nritya Parva - A festival of dance in the North East, Organised by Sangeet Natak Academy & Dept. of Cultural affairs, Govt. of  Tripura on April, 2015.

8. Performed for Soorya Parampara Dance and Music Festival in Trivandrum in November 2015.

9. Performed for Rasavikalpam under the aegis of Kerala Sangeet Natak Akademi in Palakkad and Thrissur, in November 2015.

10. Performed for the 12 th Women's World Congress 2014 which was held in India for the first time, that focused on the theme “Gender in a changing world” in August 2014.

11. Performed for Ananya Dance Festival organized by the Ananya Cultural Forum in Bangalore on December 2013.

12.They have also conceieved and choreographed a thematic piece on the music of Pandit Sri. Ramesh Narayanan on the eve of felicitation of the Jnanapeed awardee Sri. ONV Kurup which was performed, aong with their group in Dubai in November 2010.

13.The first international performance of Girish and Devi together was in China at the Festival of India under the aegis of ICCR under the guidance of Prof. Jonnalagadda Anuradha in April 2010.

14. Performed in the Uday Shankar Dance Festival in Kolkata in 2009

15. Girish performed for Purush Festiavl in January 2007

16. Girish also performed for Kalachakra Festival and Flamingo Festival in the year 2005 & 2006 in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.


Major Choreographies 

1. They have composed and choreographed ‘Arjunah Dasanameeyam’, a dance drama which is in Sanskrit language. Generally Kuchipudi dance dramas follow the regional language Telugu, as an experimental work as well as to give Sanskrit a more understandable outlook for the general public, this particular language was chosen. The review of the same describes that they have succeeded in doing the same. The dance drama is a traverse of Mahabharatha through the ten names of Arjuna and the stories related to it. This dance drama was choreographed and premiered for the ‘Festival of India’ series of Ministry of Culture in Myanmar in August 2017.

2. Choreographed and staged a thematic dance production Panchatantra for Sanskriti Educational Society in Hyderabad in March 2015.

3. Be Inspired was choreographed for the Tourism Department of Andhra Pradesh on the eve of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in  Hyderabad in 2013.

4. Still I Rise , is another production which incorporated the poems of the black poet Maya Angelou. This particular production was staged for the celebration of the 100 th year of Women’s Day by the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad in 2011.

5. Manasi Nabhasi was composed for the inaugural session of In Vivo , an inter–cultural program organized by Alliance Franchise at Taramati Baradari in Hyderabad 2010.

6.  Jala Dhara choreographed for National Green Crops, on the eve of World Environmental Day Celebration at Hyderabad in 2006. 

Other performances and works: 

1. Girish & Devi performed for the International Conference on Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research organised School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad on 31st October, 2017

2.  They performed for the "4th World Congress OFISACON - International Anaesthesiologists Conference" that was held at Hyderabad on 2nd September 2017.

3. They were part of the auspicious Annual Dance & Music Festival of Karikkakom Temple in Trivandrum, Kerala on April, 2017.

4. They were part of the Dance Festival conducted by the Kalashakti Mandapam at Vaikkom, along with their performance they were invited to conduct lecture demonstration on the technique and technicality formulated by Guru Sri Vempati Chinna Satyam, in Septermber 2016.

5.  Girish is privileged and honoured to perform as Lord Shiva in the dance - drama Ksheera Sagara Madanam composed and choreographed by Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam and was performed under the guidance of Guru Vempati Ravi Shankar at Nupura Raavam Dance Festival in Hyderabad in December 2015.

6. They performed for the Conference and Cultural Agenda of AP Science Congress 2013 organised by the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sceinces (APAS).

7.  Girish has also choroegrpahed dance dramas like Annamayya, Lakshala Lakshyalu, Pallelo Oka Roju.


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