Austin,
TX – June 7, 2010 – Dancer Anuradha Naimpally is pleased to announce she has
been approved for inclusion on the new Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas
Touring Roster. The Texas Touring Roster features some of the state’s best
artistic talent and is designed to ensure that all Texans may enjoy events and performances
by these artists in their local communities. Naimpally is one of only 124
artists and arts companies selected for inclusion on the roster.
“Artists on the Texas Touring Roster
travel to communities across the state and perform in a variety of venues,”
said TCA executive director Gary Gibbs. “In addition to performances, they may
also conduct workshops, master classes, residencies, lecture-demonstrations or
arts education components as a way to engage community residents. We are proud
to offer the citizens of Texas access to such high-quality artistic talent.”
Artists
on the roster must have a history of touring and maintain a reasonable fee
range. The Texas Commission on the Arts does not provide direct funds to
artists in the Texas Touring Roster. Instead, TCA provides grants to arts
presenters, schools, libraries, theatres and other nonprofits throughout Texas
to help with the cost of bringing in companies and artists from the roster.
Presenters may apply through TCA’s Arts Respond Performance Support grant category
for a portion of the artistic fees for artists from the Texas Touring
Roster.
Acceptance
onto the Texas Touring Roster benefits artists like Naimpally by giving them a
powerful marketing tool. Access to grant funds combined with the fact that Texas
Touring Roster artists have been deemed the best in their field by a panel of
statewide experts makes these artists attractive to a variety of presenters,
including schools, festivals, theatres and other venues.
Artists
on the Texas Touring Roster range from individual performing and visual artists
to large performing arts companies. They represent artistic disciplines
including music, visual art, dance, theatre, storytelling, literary art and
folk art. Options are diverse and range from ballet to bluegrass, sculpture to
cowboy poetry, jazz to children’s theatre, and everything in between.
More
information on Anuradha Naimpally is available at www.austindanceindia.com.
The complete Texas Touring Roster, as well as information on the Arts Respond
Performance Support grant category, is available online at www.arts.state.tx.us.
About
the Texas Commission on the Arts
The
mission of the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is to advance our state
economically and culturally by investing in a creative Texas. TCA supports a
diverse and innovative arts community in Texas, throughout the nation and
internationally by providing resources to enhance economic development, arts
education, cultural tourism and artist sustainability initiatives. For more
information on TCA and its programs, please visit www.arts.state.tx.us.
QUOTES
“….more refined and understated, yet highly potent with their message for peace, was Anuradha Naimpally, an Indian dancer whose meticulous arms, hand, and finger movements seemed to lull the audience into a blissful sate of reverie. With her softly angelic yet powerful voice, Naimpally culminated her dance with a prayer for peace.”
"As if her movements were telling a secret that would change the destiny of humankind, Anuradha Naimpally commanded the stage with a spiritually seductive rendition of Bharata Natyam dance.
"Anuradha Naimpally, radiant in gold sari and full Bharata Natyam regalia, exquisitely performed her traditional movements."
Sondra Lomax, Dance Magazine (New York)
"Anuradha Naimpally showed an original approach in presentation. Though she performed only two numbers in 30 minutes, she made a lingering impression. With postural grace, fluidity in hastas (hand symbols), and vivid imagery, she rendered the pieces with balance."
N. Hariharan, Times of India (Mumbai, India)
“Her invocation was aptly addressed to the mother goddess, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati in all their glory, effulgence, and power. In this she gave excellent iconic representations of the three great goddesses who preside over knowledge, wealth, and power.”
C M Rana, Sunday Free Press Journal (Mumbai, India)
"Anuradha is exquisitely beautiful and exquisitely bright"
Robert Greenwood, Bansuri (Calgary, Canada)
”Naimpally….then gave a masterful performance of the famous Dasa kriti, Krishna Nee Begane Baro….Naimpally choreographed the piece and presented episodes from baby Krishna’s life to the kriti from mother Yashoda’s point of view. The vatsalya bhava was presented to its utmost effect….Through three simple items, Naimpally showed that she was a serious Bharata Natyam dancer and we look forward to seeing her more often in Toronto.”
Ramani Ramakrishnan, Kala Magazine (Toronto, Canada)
