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Siri
Rama lived in Hong Kong from 1992-1999 during which she performed
for all three leading Indian cultural organizations in the city,
Gananjali, Indian Arts Circle and Vrindaban Academy, and also completed
a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong. She also conducted
numerous lecture demonstrations and workshops on Indian dance for
a variety of organizations including the Center for the Arts at
HKUST, the department of Music at HKU, the Friends of the Chinese
University Museum, the HK Academy for the Performing Arts, the Urban
and Regional Councils, and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival.
Siri
was also featured several times in the local HK media - on radio,
television and in the local press. She was also invited to choreograph
and conduct dance events for the International Travel Convention,
the Hong Kong Kannada Sangha and for the Cantonese-language television
station TVB-Jade. She was invited to conceptualize and choreograph
a special dance production on the life of the Buddha entitled Buddha
Charita to mark the inauguration of a major exhibition of Buddhist
Art at the Fung Ping Shan Museum at the University of Hong Kong
in 1998; in conjunction with this event, Siri's dance troupe of
twelve artistes from the Kanaka Sabha Centre in Mumbai was invited
to perform classical and Indian dance in several locations all around
Hong Kong.
A few other noteworthy performances:
October 1999 Gananjali-Hong Kong and the
Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Presented a unique recital named the "Ancient
Temple Music of India".
A unique feature of the recital was the tillana, which was choreographed
to music accompaniment by a Nadaswaram ensemble, led by Sri Lankan
Vidwan NK Pathmanathan; the tillana concluded with an extempore
interaction between the musicians and the dancer.
August 1996 International Computer Music
Conference
Siri performed a solo recital at the City Hall
Theatre, Hong Kong for the International Computer Music Conference.
The entire recital was choreographed to computer music submissions
to the conferences from composers around the world.
March 1996 Indian Arts Circle
Siri staged a dance drama, Krishna Leela, with
a cast of over forty members.
January, 1995 Indian Arts Circle
Siri staged a Hindi dance drama version of
the Indian epic, the Ramayana, at the City Hall in association with
the Indian Arts Circle with an all Hong Kong cast of over 50 members
and a live orchestra from India. In the long history of the Indian
community in Hong Kong, this was the first time that such a major
performing arts event was staged with a completely local assembly
of performers. Following the dance drama and her own solo Kuchipudi
recital, Siri formally launched her Hong Kong dance school, Nrityanjali,
as a dance wing of Gananjali.
1994 and 1995 Hong Kong Youth Arts Festivals
Siri's dance school participated in the Hong
Kong Youth Arts Festivals.
Some of Siri's students in Hong Kong
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Nirupama Anand
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Deepa Natarajan
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Shanu Sadhwani
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