ANAND DHANAKOTI
Anand Dhanakoti, originally from India, turned into a EurAsia Dancer in July 2021 becoming a professional dancer after getting his Diploma, as EurAsia Student, in the professional dance field.
Anand is currently working as a freelance dancer, based in Hamburg.
From 2006 to 2012 he stayed at the NGO “Born Free Art School”, where he got educated in the arts. From 2007 to 2017, he trained in classical ballet and jazz with Yana Lewis, of the Lewis Foundation of Classical Ballet in Bengaluru.
From 2009 to 2018, he trained in Indian martial arts and yoga at Kalari Gurukulam. He has also represented the state of Karnataka in the national gymnastics competitions in India.
Anand had been selected for EurAsia Dance Project International Network in India in 2018, as an EurAsia Student, winning the 50% EurAsia Scholarship for the three year professional program held by the EurAsia Partner CDSH, Contemporary Dance School Hamburg, Germany.
Since then he has been supported by EurAsia both economically and artistically, with several dance opportunities in order to drive him into the international professional dance career.
He has worked with various choreographers like Matej Kejzar, Abhilash Ningappa, Jonny Lloyd, Suse Tietjen and Ursina Tossi. He has also choreographed several pieces, including Thuli, which was performed at the Bremen Theatre; Immer, a solo that he performed at the EurAsia Partner Gdanski Festival Tanca in Poland; Kntsugi, a duet in collaboration with Asha Ponikiewska, which they performed at the A FoCoCo III Festival in Bangalore, India, and Japan; and a piece for the Rangayana Theatre Group, which was shown at various festivals and dealt with farmers’ suicide.
He has studied / worked with David Zambrano for three months.
projects
He has worked with various choreographers like Matej Kejzar, Abhilash Ningappa, Jonny Lloyd, Suse Tietjen and Ursina Tossi. He has also choreographed several pieces, including Thuli, which was performed at the Bremen Theatre; Immer, a solo that he performed at the Gdanski Festival Tanca in Poland; Kntsugi, a duet in collaboration with Asha Ponikiewska, which they performed at the A FoCoCo III Festival in Bangalore, India, and Japan; and a piece for the Rangayana Theatre Group, which was shown at various festivals and dealt with farmers’ suicide. He has worked with David Zambrano for three months.
YALI
India’s beautiful landscape and rich culture makes people love to travel there. Yali shows an other aspect of the country, a socio-political one, of which most explorers are unaware. Yali introduces the world to the Dalit culture. It is an attempt to expose the caste-based prejudice and horrors that have occurred in the countryside and cities over the last 2000 years. Yali is an experiment in combining contemporary dance form and Dalit culture into an artistic spectacle.
ಹಸಿವಿನಿಂದ ಸತ್ತೋರು ಸೈಜುಗಲ್ಲು ಹೊತ್ತೋರು ವದೆಸಿಕೊಂಡು ವರಗಿದೋರು ನನ್ನ ಜನಗಳು ಕಾಲುಕಯ್ಯಿ ಹಿಡಿಯೋರು ಕೈ ಮಡಗಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳೋರು ಭಕ್ತರಪ್ಪ ಭಕ್ತರೋ ನನ್ನ ಜನಗಳು
“ನನ್ನ ಜನಗಳು “Dr Siddalingaiah
who die from hunger – who haul large stones – who getting kicked drop on their backs – who beg for mercy – whose hands are slaves -who’re so devout such devotees They are my people.
“My People „
English translated by Madhav Ajjampur
Choreography: Anand Dhanakoti
Dancers: EurAsia Student Virendra Nishad and EurAsia Dancer Anand Dhanakoti
Music score: Anne Leira van Poppel Lubeigt
Video and editing: Mayur Joe
Assistant: Alergía van Poppel Lubeigt
Supported by Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR.
Special thank you to
Inlaks Shivadashini Foundation India
Eurasia Dance Project International Network
Unusual Symptoms Dance Company, Theatre Bremen
Contemporary Dance school of Hamburg, Germany
Tictac Art Centre, Belgium
DE Loopers -dance2gether
David Zambrano
GAGMF: THE CURRENT DANCE COLLECTIVE
YELLOW SPICE
a solo performance + workshop by EurAsia Dancer Anand Dhanakoti
Choreography & Dance: Anand Dhanakoti
Sounds: Kristina Mau
Dramaturgy & Cooking: Alegría van Poppel Lubeigt
Photo by Florian Ziemen
/// YELLOW SPICE
“People love to explore India for its rich culture and beauty. This choreography will show a different aspect of the country that most explorers are not aware of. Anand belongs to the Dalit caste also known as ‘untouchables’.
Through his dance, he will explore what means to live in a censored body, using elements from Kalaripayattu technique, (Indian martial arts) Contemporary dance and South Indian Dalit folk dance forms.”
Supported by -Maakfabriek @maakfabriek and Dienke Groenhout .
COSMIC BODIES BY URSINA TOSSI
Our EurAsia Dancers Anand Dhanakoti, Girish Kumar & Damini Gairola, originally from India are part of the project COSMICBODIES.
Harmonize with chemicals. Staying asymmetrical, but finding order. Transform. Vibrating. Speaking planetary languages Breathe. Confuse “human” with your smell organs. Shivering. Touch. Feel if the rock is a rock or an alien.
In COSMICBODIES, seven dancing bodies draw from the horror and sci-fi genres, science discourse, pop and subculture to win an intimate body language. The images of the piece move through the space time of the sound inner world of your body to the sound outer space. Outer and inner space are tipping and moving inside each other, while the memory of our mother’s advice is found in photographs, which is bound to black holes.
There are friction, conflict and potentials of new bodies and new behaviours of the relationship between bodies. Out of this earthly and “human” past, rapidly reproducing polybride monstrous bodies emerge with new abilities, protective mechanisms, constellations, functions, body parts, expansions and movements, a kind of cosmic ch political humanoid subject.
Artistic direction & choreography: Ursina Tossi
Co-Choreography & Dance: Anand Dhanakoti, Damini Gairola, Girish Kumar, Huentin Yeung, Rykema, Rykena , Ursina Tossi
Drama: Zwoisy Mearsclarke
Sound : Johtke
Light: The Power of Lars
Stage: Raphaela Andrade
Costume: Nina Divitschek
Costume Assistant: Daniela Treisigacker
Assistance: Nona Siepmann
Production and Press: SLIPPERS
Photography: Polina Alexandra
Diffusion: LEAD Productions
UNUSUAL SYMPTOMS
He was a part of the two months internship with the “UNUSUAL Symptoms” dance company of the Bremen Theatre, Germany, in September & October 2021.
Anand was supported with a scholarship given by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, India.
During the master he had dance classes with the company, attended the rehearsals of the Company and he had also lighting technique training and choreographing lessons.
For the last two weeks of his internship Anand spent hours in the theatre/acting department too.