akshatha ramesh

Akshatha Ramesha turned into a EurAsia Dancer in July 2021 becoming a Professional Dancer and a member of the EurAsia Dance Company, after getting her Diploma in the dance field.

Akshatha was selected as EurAsia Student in India winning the 50% EurAsia Scholarship for the three year professional program at CDSH, Contemporary Dance School Hamburg, Germany.

Since 2019 she has been supported by EurAsia both economically and artistically, with several dance opportunities in order to drive her into the international professional dance career.

She has also completed her graduation in India at Attakklari Centre for Movement Arts as a performing artist. She has been trained professionally in Bharatnatyam (Indian classical dance) for more than 12 years along with some of the semi-classical and folk dances.

Her experience as a performing artist in Attakkalari centre for movement arts introduced her to the world of contemporary. Here, her curiosity and interest towards Ballet, Contemporary techniques, Indian Martial Arts (Kalaripayattu) grew with the curriculum. Performing with their Repertoire was an humbling experience.

Later through Stefano Fardelli artistic director of Eurasia Dance Project she had the opportunity to study at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg.

She has been working with The Current Dance Collective as a performer since 2021. She has had an experience of an assistant production manager for a production Afroconfusionist choreographed by Sunday Isreal Akpan (March 2022). Recently she performed in “Pop-Up Folklorique” choreographed by Véronique Langlott (June 2022), “Stage legends” from Stuekliesel at the MS Artville Festival (August 2022) and “Poetics of Border” choreographed by Esther Menon Siddiquie (September 2022).

PROJECTS

///Poetics of Borders
 
POETICS OF BORDERS is a choreographic installation. Borders and border politics become performance – or they are already. This evening analyzes and questions the subjects, localities, topographies, materials, movements, epistemologies of borders. The body is an important actor that slips into various roles. Steady he is on his way to exceeding established limits. Be it as a crosser, trickster or a magician.
The performers and the artistic team will intensively analyze current national borders: Where are they? Who set them down, built them? What material are they made of? The research produces charts, scores, graphs and sound recordings. As an example, is the PV-1 fence, which separates Mexico from the United States, but also maritime borders, border controls on highways, airport controls, city borders, house limits etc. These data form the basic framework for the choreographic Arb eit, as well as for the installation and the sound score.
 
CREDITS
Choreography: Esther Siddiquie
Created and performed with
Henrikke Sande Boger
Florencia Martina, Akshatha Ramesh, Esther Siddiquie
Creative Production: Lead Productions (Uta Engel & Carolina Brinkmann)
Artistic Stage Concept: Emre Abut 
Sound Design: Virginia Of The Wells
Styling: FatmaSaltwater
Artistic Advice: Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs 
Critical Friend: Rabea Prs
Video Documentation: Lenny Smalls
Audio Description Consultation: Silja Korn
Costume Design: Stine Dahlman
 
The production is supported by the NPN Stepping Out, Re-start Culture and the representatives of the federal government for culture and media. In cooperation with kitev.
 
 
 
///Pop-Up Folklorique
 
The choreography Pop-Up Folklorique critically examines the cultural construction, symbolism and ideology of cultural identity, people and community. The piece moves through the past and present into the future: based on the most clicked YouTube videos Pop-Up Folklorique searches for traces of international folk dances, examines their social role and their community-building potential and carries this into the present in a critical and humorous debate. 
 
On stage, four performers slip from one role into the next, jump from one folk dance to another, change from costume to costume and go in search of the new folk dance of today. With the construction of its own folk dance, the piece negates itself at the end.
 
 
CREDITS
Co-Choreography & Dance: Véronique Langlott, Sujin Lee, Juliana Oliveira, Akshatha Ramesh
Dramaturgy: Matthias Quabbe
Stage and costume: Anne Sophie Domenz
Assistant stage design: Silas Rasch
Video projection & sound: Iman Jesmi
Production management: Katya Voronova
Lighting design and technical direction: Lars Kracht
Press: STÜCKLIESEL
///Afroconfusionist
 
We celebrate the self confusion of identities. AFROCONFUSIONIST is an open exploration of the term Afro – its roots and its manifold overlays with contradictory attributions in today’s world. Afro: a condition, a feeling, an origin, a musical style, a political statement, a designation that raises questions.
Together with a team of four dancers and two musicians, Nigerian choreographer Israel Akpan Sunday invites us to a poetic jam session that lets dance and music collide and tries to create as much confusion as possible with the mishmash of political and cultural-historical references, styles and feelings.
The Confusionist is an equilibrium of indecision in which one thing can be another. He is the never-still confrontation in gentle aggression, divisive love, and vague unambiguity with no prospect of redemption – the perfect state to finally meet again with fragile confidence in glorious demarcation.
 
CREDITS
Artistic direction, Concept, Choreography: Sunday Israel Akpan
Dance: Tirza Ben Zvi; Nana Anine; Sunday Israel Akpan; Mosha
Music: Paul Timmich; Isioma Williams
Dramaturgy: Matthias Quabbe
Video artist: Larissa Potapov
Production head: Vivienne Lütteken for FAMILY PRODUCTION
Production head Assistant : Akshatha Ramesh 
Distribution & Marketing: Nadine Freisleben for Apricot Productions 
Logistic: Kelvin Isaac Jeremiah
Costume:  Yupanqui Ramos
Stage design:  Markus Lohmann