During the “Event within the Event: Higan hosts Tibet and India”, there will be a show of Bharata Natyam traditional Indian dances by Apsaras, Indian Scenic Arts Centre in Milan.

Narrated choreographies of the Hindu tradition will be represented on stage by:

The acting voice of the spectacle:
Oliviero Grimaldi

The Classic Indian Dance Bharata Natyam
Bharata Natyam is the most ancient and fascinating form of classic Indian dance, created within the Hindu philosophical research, with the purpose of meeting and spreading the sacred through art.

The Devadasi dedicated their life only to the music, singing and dancing. Their performances depicted divine virtues, mythological parables and religious teachings to a huge faithful audience for which the written texts were inaccessible.
Bharata Natyam maintains old ritual values: the union of theatre and dance, of celebration and prayer; thanks to its technical and formal complexity, to the richness of its mimic language, and to the deep awareness of the aesthetical value as a spiritual vehicle, today it is recognised one of the most ancient and refined choreographic and acting traditions of human being.

Apsaras – Indian Scenic Arts Centre, aims at the creation of a centre for the research and diffusion of the disciplines of the performance coming from the thousand-year old tradition of the Indian subcontinent.
It cooperates with the Indian Tourism Agency, universities, and important teaching centres in India and Europe; it puts together dancers, actors, musicians, scholars and those passionate for Indian culture from Italy and abroad, for years it has offered intense study activities, meetings and organized performances.