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Contemporary for professionals

by Narendra Patil

Contemporary for professionals

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"Dancing language is to express feelings and emotions as I perform. Through my dancing, I can connect to my inner self and experience life at its best. This has come through life experience, years of training, practice, and observation of my teaching and performing. “

Narendra Patil is a performer, teacher, and choreographer from India. He is a movement specialist in IndYog- Contemporary, Martial Arts, Improvisation, and Flying Low. Co-founder and artistic director of Sanskar Global Platform for Performing Arts, India. Narendra graduated from Terence Lewis Dance Foundation Scholarship Trust in India. He has been a principal performer, teacher, and assistant choreographer at Terence Lewis Contemporary Dance Company for 10 years in Mumbai. Narendra studied Okinawa martial arts and also completed a Yoga teachers training course from “The Yoga Institute” India, the oldest organized yoga center in the world. Narendra is the first Indian contemporary dancer who has studied under David Zambrano as a part of an EXIN 30 days intensive workshop on Flying Low and Passing Through technique in Berlin, Madrid, and Corfu. He participated in David Zambrano’s "60 days intensive improvisation workshop" at TicTac Art Centre, Brussels.
His experience training under the stalwarts of Martial arts, Contemporary dance in India and Europe inspired him to create and develop his own dance vocabulary called IndYog-Contemporary. Narendra is currently working as an independent artist in India and abroad.

IndYog-Contemporary Class starts with conditioning the body through yoga and movements. We dive into Indian traditional outdoor games elements that can help to enjoy and experience life at its best. Games includes physical endurance, precision, and mutual trust. The next part of the class will take you into playing with momentum, suspension and dynamic floor routines. It also combines floor exploration with antigravity falls, recovery, agile partnering and strength based technique which allows the individual to discover organic body rhythms and floor connections. We will use body toning and martial arts exercises to keep the energy level high throughout the class. In my class we will use lot of partnering coordination exercises for alertness and concentration. Class will end with physical demanding multidirectional phrases and vocabulary from Narendra’s research work.

Flying Low
After more than 13 years as a close follower of David Zambrano, I will share a series of phrases and exercises which experiment on the Flying Low principles. Flying Low classes focus mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor. The class utilizes simple movement patterns that involve breathing, speed, and the release of energy throughout the body to activate the relationship between the centre and the joints, moving in and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining a centred state. There is a focus on the skeletal structure that will help improve the dancers' physical perception and alertness. The class includes partnering work and movement phrases, which explore the primary laws of physics: cohesion and expansion.