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The Conversation: Choreographers: Aditi Mangaldas and Jasmin Vardimon

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Choreographers: Aditi Mangaldas and Jasmin Vardimon

07/12/2015 GMT

BBC World Service - The Conversation, Choreographers: Aditi Mangaldas and Jasmin Vardimon

Dancing and directing - the art of the choreographer

Award-winning choreographers discuss how they work with their companies to tell stories, by translating thoughts and ideas into extraordinary physical movement on stage

Growing up in an Israeli kibbutz taught choreographer Jasmin Vardimon all about group dynamics, but she came to dancing relatively late, aged 14. Now artistic director of the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company in the UK, her visually stunning and exciting performances are inspired by universal themes such as brutality and justice, filtered through the personal experience of her and her dancers. Jasmin says that leading a production is like bringing up a child - at a key point you need to be able to let go and trust the dancers to do their best. 

Aditi Mangaldas was trained in the classical Indian dance form of kathak from the age of five. Her Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company, Drishtikon Dance Foundation, now performs all over the world.  With its fast footwork and rhythmic complexity, kathak gives Aditi a sense of feeling timeless, of being bound to the ground.  She believes that there is room for the dance form to evolve and in some of her productions fuses kathak with contemporary dance.  Aditi still performs on stage, and on those days says she has to become just one of the company.

(L) Aditi Mangaldas. Credit: Dinesh Khanna
(R) Jasmin Vardimon. Credit: Ben Harries

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