Transforming Steps: 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Meet the Dancers: Sreeja Debnath and Sabita Debnath

We are Sreeja and Sabita, two of the dancers from Kolkata Sanved who will be performing in the Transforming Steps campaign. We are eagerly awaiting the launch of the campaign on January 2nd!

Today, the team from London arrived in Kolkata: Rose and Elspeth, filmmakers from London and the West Indies respectively and Mafalda, a choreographer from the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company. We are looking forward to working with them, creating both dance and video.

The Beginning: Kolkata Sanved, Living Lens and Sadler's Wells

Preparations for our big trip to London have begun!

This week, Kolkata Sanved will welcome representatives from Living Lens, an organization using video to promote social change as well as a dancer and choreographer from the incredible Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company. Together we will begin preparing choreography as well as video footage for the London campaign which will shed light on the issues of human trafficking and violence. To learn more about the collaboration and the international campaign, read this article posted on the Journeys for Change website.

The Dancers of Transforming Steps

The Kolkata Sanved dancers will perform unique choreography as part of a dance and video awareness raising initiative entitled Transforming Steps. Through Transforming Steps and the larger campaign, Stand with Survivors of Sex Trafficking, Stand Against Exploitation, the dancers will open themselves to the rich experience of travel and to a deeper understanding of the power of dance to transcend cultural barriers. As inspiring role models and human rights advocates, performing in London will broaden the dancer's scope of contemporary choreography and enhance their skills as dance movement therapy trainers working in Kolkata, India.