SALT LAKE SAPPHIRE CREATIONS DANCE TROUPE Key Issues and
Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements
Operational Districts: Kolkata
Operational States: WEST BENGAL
AchieveMents: Sapphire Creations is Eastern Indiaââ¬â¢s only experimental dance company striving to develop an organic, radical, dynamic and alternative idiom of movement. With a forte for innovation the ensemble is fresh, young and exudes a ready awareness of contemporary global concerns. Sapphire has performed with a new idiom for the last 18 years across 5 continents in various prestigious art festivals and conferences all over the world namely Malaysia, Canada, Australia, Thailand, Italy, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Poland, Bangladesh, United States, Austria, Spain and India.
Sapphireââ¬â¢s work approaches issues of gender, art, relationships, society, polity, consumerism and HIV through a global perspective, South Asian sensitivity and an experimental body stylistic. The Sapphire experiment imbibes ancient Indian body history to relevant modern contact and improvisatory solo and group work methods presenting itself as proscenium, site-specific, improvisatory, installations, multimedia work.
Beyond dance Sapphire thrusts on community building for prevention and awareness of HIV/AIDS, promotion of contemporary arts, and dance therapy for different communities. The LINK THE ARTS movement with its sub-initiatives like InArtSync for campus mobilization, Sapphire Quarterly Arts Series to promote new contemporary idioms and spaces and the biennial international alternative arts festival INTERFACE now due for its 6th edition in 2012 are some of the consistent efforts by Sapphire to create a niche for the contemporary arts in India. Currently Sapphire has both School and Repertory sections.
National Performances
Puri Beach Festival 1996, Uday Shankar Nrityotsav 1996,Kolkata, Vishnupur Festival 1997, Konarak Music and Dance Festival 1998, Island Tourism Festival 1998,Port Blair, India International Centre,New Delhi in 1999,National Integration Festival 1999,Sikkim, Millennium Festival of New Choreographies 2000,New Delhi, The Other Festival 2000,Chennai, Taj Mahotsav 2001,Agra, NCPA 2001,Mumbai, Young Dancers Festival 2001, Goa , organized by Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, World AIDS Day 2001 celebrations organized by UNAIDS,New Delhi, National Festival of Choreography 2002,Kolkata,.organized by Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, Russian Cultural Center 2004,Mumbai, Puri Beach Festival 2004, 2005, Kharavela Festival 2005, 2006,Bhubaneshwar, Uday Shankar Dance Festival 2005,New Delhi, Nishagandhi Festival 2005,Thiruvananthapuram, HCL Concert Series 2006, India Habitat Center,New Delhi, Kalinga Mahotsav 2007,Bhubaneshwar, Common Wealth Youth Games 2008,Pune, Kalaghoda Arts Festival 2009,Mumbai, World Newspaper Congress 2009, Hyderabad, Puri Beach Festival 2009,2010, Banpur Mahotsav 2010, organized by Govt of Orissa, Delhi International Arts Fetsival 2010, Poetry Festival 2010,Chennai, Natarani Festival 2011,Ahmedabad, International Kolkata Film Festival 2011, Kalinga-Dhauli Festival 2011,Bhubaneswar, Uday Shankar Dance Festival 2012,Jaipur,
International Tours
Asia Pacific AIDS Conference 1999 in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2001 ,Australia, Rauxa Cultural Program 2002, Barcelona,Spain, Silabha Arts Festival 2004,Bangkok,Thailand, Africasia Concert 2004 in Bangkok,Thailand, Journees de la Culture 2005,Montreal,Canada, Tour of Canada 2006, Curore de India 2006, Bologna,Italy , Tagore Society 2007,Singapore, Grey Festival 2007,Singapore, Tour of Sri Lanka 2007, Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival 2009, Bytom,Poland, FAB Awards 2010, Bangkok,Thailand, North America Bengali Conference 2010,New Jersey,USA, World Dance Alliance Global Dance Meet 2010, New York,USA, World AIDS Conference 2010,Vienna,Austria, Tour of Bangladesh 2012, British Dance Edition 2012,(London, Czech Dance Platform 2012,Prague
