Matrusena is a non-profit pioneering to give quality art education for the next generation.
Our next upcoming event is Interbeing-2025. Please join us and support this cause.
This is a ticketed event.
$25 - Early Bird Pricing (Until Nov 7th)
$30 - General Ticket after Nov 7th
One of Matrusena's core objectives is to bring an appreciation for diverse aesthetics among all art lovers. To that end Matrusena's Interbeing 2025 features three art practitioners who have dedicated their lives towards exploring different artistic movement idioms and narrative themes that leverage on what has been passed down in history with a contemporary sensibility.
We are presenting Ashwini Srivatsan who has spent 25 years practicing the movement form known as 'Bharatanrityam', which was developed by Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam. This has been developed using the textual references in the Natyasastra (200BC-200CE) in tandem with the sculptures in temples across South Asia. For the past five years Ashwini has been working with Dr. Piyal Bhattacharya on Marga Natya. Marga Natya takes as its departure point the research already done by Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam. It strives to reimagine and recreate art as it must have existed at the time of the Natyasastra. Marga Natya is anchored in finding the true essence of art and uses movement, singing, instrumentation, spoken poetry to give expression to that essence. Ashwini will be presenting 'Baanika' a solo presentation that draws on all these elements. She will also be training local Bay area students in a workshop on some facets of Marganatya and select students will be presented at the Festival too.
Dr. Maya Kulkarni is an award winning choreographer who is the creator of a unique movement style called 'Shilpanatanam'. She has been working with leading dance practitioners around the world to create fascinating choreographies with Shilpanatanam. Dr. Kulkarni's choice of narratives to portray is unique and draws from different cultures across the world. Her movement inspiration for Shilpanatanam is firmly rooted in the dramaturgical purpose in these narratives and she doesn't let any particular movement idiom constraint her. Dr. Kulkarni will also be training local Bay area students through a workshop in choreographies that she has specially prepared for Interbeing-2025. Selected students from the workshop will be featured at Interbeing on December 7th.
The last part of the evening will be a dance presentation by Dr. Deepa Mahadevan. Deepa is a movement researcher who believes in the idea of 'Presencing' where different movement forms blend in her being to bring forth the desired vision. She will be presenting 'Mayyal' an argument for unbridled love that is not constraint by society or contracts. 'Mayyal' largely foregrounds a Bharatanatyam movement vocabulary but Deepa, as a movement researcher celebrates the dialogue and constant interaction in her mind of body of the different movement systems that she has been training in and they take shape in her creative expression and choreographies.
Please come watch these three artists who have collectively spent over 100 years cultivating their artistic expression at Interbeing 2025.
Looking forward to seeing you all at Interbeing-2025.