Nicholas Jachno and Reshika Sivakumaran in “The Point”.
WHEN it comes to bringing contrasting cultures into close proximity, no one does it better than Canberra Dance Artist and 2017 “CityNews” Artist Of The Year, Liz Lea.
On April 29, International Dance Day, Lea will premiere “The Point”, a new one-hour dance work with a unique Canberra connection, which has been in the pipeline for seven years.
With an unusual training in both classical Indian dance and contemporary western dance, she approaches the new work with absolutely no tokenism.
On the contrary, she deliberately sought out local experts in the classical dance forms Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Kathak – Nandana Chellappah, Vanaja Dasika and Ira Patkar – and assembled a crack team of contemporary dancers to create a perfect cultural interface.