When We Move

Episode 4 - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Releasing Friday, July 3rd, 2020.

Episode 4 is with Rakesh Sukesh who is from India living currently in Belgium. He is a practitioner of Kallaripayattu, Contemporary dance and Yoga. He started his Contemporary dance journey in 2003 with Attakkalarri in Bangalore. Since 2009 Rakesh has been working on developing a contemporary movement method called Payatt INtransit - using Kalarippayattu and contemporary movement techniques, yoga and energy work. He has been invited to teach Payatt INtransit at various festivals and for companies such as Sidi Larbi’s company, Ultima Vez, Impuls Tanz Vienna, Deltebre Danza Spain. He travels around the world working with Dance companies and festivals. He also works as freelance Performer/ Choreographer, collaborating with various artists from different genres. In 2014 he was a certified yoga teacher from Shivananda school of yoga. He currently lives and works by dividing his time between Europe and Asia. Sanskar India is the brainchild of Rakesh and Narendra as a way to bring world-class dance education to India/south east asia and integrate into the international dance community.

To watch the  previous Episode on various platforms, you will find the links to it on: https://suhaee.com/podcast/

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Episode 3 - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Every Friday.

Episode 3 is with Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, an internationally touring artist practicing the Indian classical dance form, Kathak. Born, brought up and living in California, U.S.A, she received her training for two decades by the late Pandit Chitresh Das.

Farah is known for her powerful and evocative storytelling, technical precision, delicacy and grace - bringing a clairvoyant voice to the contemporary stage, while simultaneously maintaining the traditional aspects of Kathak.

Farah is a former member of the Chitresh Das Dance Company and former instructor of the Chhandam School of Kathak. Touring extensively with the company nationally and internationally since 1998 and later as a soloist with her first solo performance in 2007.

In 2015, Farah presented her first full length production of her own original choreography - The Twentieth Wife - a performance of Farah as the solo dancer through an adaptation of a novel by Indu Sundaresan of the same title, including live musical accompaniment and multimedia. Farah continues to tour the follow up to this project, The Forgotten Empress, with an original script written by playwright and director, Matthew Spangler.

In 2016, Farah founded her own organization, Noorani Dance, providing in depth training to students ages 5 and up.

For more on Farah and Noorani Dance: https://nooranidance.com/farah-yasmeen-shaikh

Intro music credits: Shehroz Hussain (Sitar), Yousuf Kerai (Tabla), Farah Yasmeen Shaikh (singing) 

To watch the vodcast (YouTube) and hear the podcast (various platforms), you will find the links to it on: suhaee.com/podcast/

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Episode 3 TRAILER - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Releasing Friday, June 26th, 2020.

Farah Yasmeen Shaikh is an internationally touring Kathak artist, and the Founder and Artistic Director of Noorani Dance, having received her training for two decades by the late Pandit Chitresh Das. 

Displaying a passion and compassion in all of her work, Farah is known for her powerful and evocative storytelling, technical precision, delicacy and grace - bringing a clairvoyant voice to the contemporary stage, while simultaneously maintaining the traditional aspects of Kathak.

In 2016, Farah founded her own organization, Noorani Dance, providing in depth training to students ages 5 and up. Noorani Dance offers traditional and innovative training and performances, and collaborative partnerships across other forms of performing arts, displaying Farah’s unique artistic expression and vision coupled with the classical and innovative style of her Guru, the late Kathak maestro, Pandit Chitresh Das.

To watch the  previous Episode on various platforms, you will find the links to it on: https://suhaee.com/podcast/

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Episode 2 - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Every Friday.

He found that when you move, you improve. Movement enhances human experience.

He is the author of two books, The Dance Cure (2020) and Dance Psychology (2018).

Dr Lovatt is a co-creator of Movement in Practice (MiP), a technique for using movement to enhance the human experience in business, education, health and social care.

Dr Peter Lovatt is a world-class speaker who delivers groovy keynotes. Speaking about movement, and its impact on our relationships, thinking and emotions, Peter has shared keynote sessions with Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Geena Davis, Steve "The Woz" Wozniak, Sir Richard Branson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and others.

Dr. Peter Lovatt takes you on a thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the psychology of movement and how it affects uniquely human skills such as creativity and divergent thinking, skills that are important in education, healthcare and the workplace.

Peter developed and teaches two courses on Dance Psychology at the Royal Ballet School in London.

Peter is sometimes known as Dr Dance.

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Episode 2 TRAILER - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Releasing Friday, June 19th, 2020.

Peter is sometimes known as Dr Dance.

To watch the  previous Episode on various platforms, you will find the links to it on: suhaee.abro/podcast/

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Episode 1  - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Every Saturday evening.

Episode 1 is with the creator of the podcast, Suhaee Abro, as she articulates her motivation behind starting this series: what dance has done to and for her; what movement is in her perspective; and how she explores this theme further in conversation with others (movers, dancers, musicians, actors, doctors, anyone working with the body internally or externally) in the episodes to follow. 

Aadil Ayub, her longtime friend and an outsider the field of dance/movement, asks her questions about dance and movement as a personal practice, and how to understand and engage with it as a layperson.

To watch (YouTube) and hear the podcast (various platforms), you will find the links to it on: https://suhaee.com/podcast/

Artwork by Abro Khuda Bux

Photograph by Ezster Papp

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When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.

Releasing Friday,June 12th - 9pm (PST) and 6pm (CEST)

Episode 1 is the with the creator of this podcast, Suhaee Abro as she tells her reason for beginning this series, what dance has done to and for her, what is movement in her perspective and how she explores this further speaking with others (movers, dancers, musicians, actors, doctors, anyone working with the body internally or externally) in the episodes following the first one. Aadil Ayub her longtime friend who has nothing to do with dance or movement asks her questions sharing what he thought dance was all about and what he has observed about it and in Suhaee's journey as her friend.