Short Biography:
Amit Chowdhury
Senior Demonstrator
Amit got his initial training in Bharatnatyam Dance from the well known Bharatnatyam Dancer and Indian National Scholarship holder Sri Rajdeep Banerjee. Later he took training from Srimati Kirti Ramgopal from Bangalore. Prior to that he trained under Guru Runu Biswas {late} ...
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Amit Chowdhury
Senior Demonstrator
Amit got his initial training in Bharatnatyam Dance from the well known Bharatnatyam Dancer and Indian National Scholarship holder Sri Rajdeep Banerjee. Later he took training from Srimati Kirti Ramgopal from Bangalore. Prior to that he trained under Guru Runu Biswas {late} and also CTG Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh. Amit was awarded 1st class in his B.A. course in Bharatnatyam in 2008 and completed his M.A. in Bharatnatyam Dance successfully from Rabindra Bharati University in 2010. Currently, he is working as a Demonstrator at the “Department of Theater and Performing Studies”, University of Dhaka since 2016. From 28th June 2020 he has been promoted to a Senior Demonstrator at the same Department.
Some of his major performances are at the 'Khajuraho Dance Festival' 2017 (Khajuraho), 'Bengal Classical Music Festival' 2014 & 2017 (Dhaka), '28th Shantala Nritya Vaibhaba' 2016 (Bangalore), 'UdayShankar Dance Festival' 2008, 'Stars of Tomorrow' 2009 (Kolkata) in Prangon Mancha at Rabindra Sadan. Besides these Amit had performed Bharatnatyam at Delhi IIC center which was organized by “SHADHONA”, one of the leading cultural institutions of Bangladesh as well as South Asia. He performed at the Inaugural Conference of Music Education Alliance Across the 'Silk Road" at Beijing, China. He was selected by GOETHE INSTITUTE Dhaka to experience performance as a delegate at TANZ PLATTFORM (27.2.2014 to 2.3.2014) KAMPNAGEL, HAMBURG.
He had the experience of working with leading choreographers like Donald Bard (USA), Bimbavati Devi (Kolkata), Dr. Urmimala Sarkar (Delhi) and other notable figures. He received the title “SRINGAR MONI” at the 49th KALKI KALAKAR FESTIVAL at Mumbai. Recently (2020) he had worked on Father : Vision of the Floating world which was choreographed by world-known Dance Choreographer Akram Khan.
In January 2012, he choreographed Tagore’s ‘Mayar Khela’ and later ‘Fireflies’ which was performed at the Nrityakatha Dance Festival in Delhi and received much critical appreciation from dance critics there. His choreographed contemporary production “Shohor Periye '' was selected and performed in the World Dance Alliance Annual Conference- 2018, Taiwan.
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