Hrishikesh Pawar

Hrishikesh Pawar

Kathak / Contemporary dancer / choreographer

Artistic Director to the Centre of Contemporary Dance is amongst the important voices in Indian Contemporary dance. He has studied Kathak with Pt. Rohini Bhate and later was a guest student at the prestigious Palucca Hochschule in the Dance Teaching Program in Dresden. He continues his Kathak training under Guru Neelima Adhye.

With numerous feature films and theatre/stage productions as a performer as well as a successful choreographer, his collaborative work was featured at various Art Festivals such as Fringe Festival, Canada, Dokumenta, Kassel, Germany, Kochi Biennale 2018/19.

In the past he has received the prestigious McArthur Fellowship for 2015/16. Apart from various films, stage shows and theater works he is most rooted in his work with people suffering from Parkinson and other Community Projects which have become a philosophy of his work.

"At Eleusis, one realises, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. At Eleusis, one becomes adapted to the cosmos. Outwardly Eleusis may seem broken, disintegrated with the crumbled past; actually, Eleusis is still intact and it is we who are broken, dispersed, crumbling to dust. Eleusis lives; lives eternally in the midst of a dying world."
Henry Miller

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