For an entire week, starting this Saturday, three Odissi dancers will be in the city, talking to people, performing and sharing the experience of making dance their life. These dancers have been living for almost two decades in Nrityagram, a residential dance institute started by Protima Gauri in 1990 on the outskirts of Bangalore. Through brilliant dance performances and interactive workshops, the dancers from Nrityagram hope to introduce dance enthusiasts in the city to the beauty and spirituality of making dance a way of life.

Such week-long programmes have been organised by Nrityagram in other countries, but this is the first time it is being done in India. “It helps introduce dance in a deeper way to the audience. Apart from performances, when there are lecture demonstrations and interactive sessions, the audience gets a better understanding of dance,” explains Surupa Sen, the artistic director of Nrityagram.