Damini Gairola

damini gairola

Damini Gairola turned into EurAsia Dancer in July 2021 becoming a Professional Dancer after getting her Diploma in the dance field.

Damini has been selected as EurAsia Student through the 2017 EurAsia Auditions in India, winning the 50% EurAsia Scholarship for the three year professional program at the EurAsia Academy Partner CDSH, Contemporary Dance School Hamburg, Germany.

Damini Gairola started her education in dance from Attakkalari Centre of Movement Arts of Bangalore, India (2016-2018).

Professionally she has been performing with companies since quite some time. She danced with the Nritarutya Dance Company, India (2015-16) and at Attakkalari (2017-18), India.

 

projects

In 2018/19 she has been one of the dancers in the project, “Without Words-Melting Point Dance” of the Instrumentenwelt
Elbphilharmonie, Choreographed by Johnny Lloyd and Musical Accompaniment: Sven Kacirek which premiered at K1, Kampnagel (Hamburg, Germany).

She was a part of the piece “2666” choreographed by Yolanda Morales that premiered at K4, Kampnagel
(Hamburg, Germany) as a part of K3 Limited Edition(2019) and had following performances in Hamburg and Bremen, Germany.

Damini has been selected for “Thuli”, choreographed by the EurAsia Dancer Anand Dhanakoti, presented at IKARUS.IKONE from DE LooPERS-dance2gether in co-operation with Theatre Bremen and Kunsthalle Bremen.

In 2020, as part of her second year Solo Project in CDSH, she presented the piece, “Private Party” at Hamburger Sprechwerk (Hamburg, Germany).

Currently based in Hamburg (Germany), she is also a dancer for Anne Collod and Guests, a French Choreographer for her piece “Moving Aternatives”, performing the piece at various sites in France.

Additionally, she is also a part of Yolanda Morales’ new production, “Horses”, to Premiere in Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg on October 21, 2021.

STAY ROMANTIC

EurAsia Student Virendra Nishad and the EurAsia Dancer Damini Gairola, both originally from India, are part of the performance Stay Romantic, created & directed by Barbara Schmidt-Rohr, on stage this May 25th in Hamburg, Germany.

– In a time when everything is just a click away, and disappears after the next click, the next news, the next picture, the next song or even the next war … there are no more moments that allow slowed down idleness and romantic contemplation. Romanticism, what was it again? Nature has lost its innocence, it is no longer whole, traces of toxic destruction have been left in the installative scenario on stage.

The audience finds itself in the middle of an installation and observes a painted panoramic landscape reminiscent of illusionary spaces from late Romanticism. At the same time, on a video level, present-day hyper-pop is quoted, which in turn meets analogue live music, as if from a pre-digital era. In the scenario pulsating through the different times and layers of perception, young performers of different ages appear and disappear. Their bodies tell stories of being »thrown«. Of digital overflow, of the current ecological crisis, of species extinction, of losses and their finality. But also about love. –

– TEAM:

Konzept, Choreografie, Regie: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr
Performance: Damini Gairola, Esther Meinke, Paula Melcher, Yolanda Morales, Luis Nachtmann, Virendra Nishad, Robin Rohrmann, Enno Schneekloth, Pauline Schönfelder, Maria Pearl Weise
Co-Choreografie: Yolanda Morales
Bühne: Hanna Lenz
Kostüme: Nina Divitschek
Live-Musik: Catharina Boutari, Tom Gatza
Sound: Iason Roumkos
Videodesign und Malerei: Jens Hasenberg
Lichtdesign: Lars Kracht
Co-Realisierung Bühne, Kostüm: Tatjana Zchei, Marie-Luise Balzer, Tatjana Milosevic
Makeup, Hair: Ilona Klein, Miriam Ebbing
Outside Eye: Helen Schröder
Video-Dokumentation: Rasmus Rienecker
Produktionsassistenz: Pauline Schönfelder
Endprobenassistenz: Ann-Leonie Niss
Fotos: G2 Baraniak
Grafik: Judith Hilgenstöhler
Technik: Kampnagel
Produktion & Kommunikation: Stückliesel

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Barbara Schmidt-Rohr
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EurAsia Student Virendra Nishad is currently in the first year batch of the professional dance program held by the EurAsia Academy Partner CDSH – Contemporary Dance School Hamburg, in Germany.

 

COSMIC BODIES

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.

Hamburg – Germany
05. & 06 May | 21:00
07. & 08. May | 19:00

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