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Updated 8/14/2019

Pampi thirdeyefell

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Pampi is founder of In Divine Company, an activist multimedia contemporary temple dance theater collective. A 20+ year newcomer-settler-resident of Massachuset and Wompanoag land, Pampi is a darker-skinned nonbinary second-genx casteD-Bengali culture worker who flourishes the intersection of healing and education and develops community-centered art that releases creative potential and drives collective change-making. 

Only recently it dawned on them that they have been developing a contemporary version of the natak - a musical dancetheater form indigenous to S. Asia - one rooted in its complex histories and one seeded in them since childhood. Each timethey perform Pampi hopes to acknowledge the complex history of colonialism (both European and Hindu) in forms weknow as temple dance and kathak that ultimately was born as repressive economic sanction on womxn (compelled to liveas courtesan/ sex workers) who were and remain of communities treated as low or out of caste (Dalit); they acknowledgethe more recent (continued and violent) history that allowed temple dance to be acceptable for upper-caste people (likethemself) to perform. Here are some projects they've been working on. Solo.Playwriting Lotus Brothers, since 2016. Mini musical dance theater bits #ne0natak, since 2014. to explore wellness intimately. They've been a moth, a bear, a Prince and even a sex educator Expressive arts healing workshops - since 2015, developed and have been facilitating "i am a universe," xplicit care, "we are economic theorists," "we are forests." and AbunDANCE, a community meditative dance and song initiative In collective.As a NEFA Dance Grant recipient (their first regional dance grant), they are creating a training program in the Chhau dance form with teacher Pradhuman Nayak. includes producing a manuscript on Chhau dance which hopes to lift up the Adivasi (indigenous) origins of dance theater forms.  Jataka Fables, In Divine Company Politics Begins at Home, since 2011- performance installation series activating individual responsibility towards justice  Please get in touch with them to learn more about AbunDANCE, a meditative movement and song initiative for wellness in community! Instagram @ thirdeyefell #ne0natak #fauxKathak #t3mpl3dance #meditativedancesong

www.thirdeyefell.com

 

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Aparna (Pampi) Das
Job Title: digital mixed media performance artist + poet
Address:
12 Rockland Street
Roxbury, MA 02119

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2013

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2013

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Multi-Disciplinary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Artist Representation / Artist Management
  • Arts Criticism / Journalism
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Audio or Video Recording
  • Consulting - Curatorial Services
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Curriculum Development
  • Marketing Services
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Residency - Community
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 4

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Youth-At-Risk

Languages Available:

  • Spanish

Geographic Reach:

  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • 2019 Recipient of New England Foundation for the Arts Dance Fund
  • 2017 City of Boston Opportunity Fund to develop AbunDANCE

Awards

Awards:

  • 2019 Recipient of New England Foundation for the Arts Dance Fund
  • 2017 City of Boston Opportunity Fund to develop AbunDANCE

Education

Education:

  • BENGALI FOLK + INDIAN CLASSICAL 1983-87, 1989-92 Bengali Natok in Kolkata, India then Beavercreek, OH 1989-92, 1995-96 Bharata Natyam training + Arangetram (Dance Graduation), Nalanda School, Columbus, OH then West Palm Beach, FL
  • PERFORMANCE + VIDEO 2001 Bachelor of Science in Art & Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Coursework included performance art and architecture* Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, Coursework included video art.
  • MARTIAL ARTS 2008-current Capoeria Angola con Mestre Deraldo Ferreira, Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA * 2015-current Kalari Yoga with Pradhuman Nayak, Cambridge, MA.
  • COMMUNITY THEATER 2013 Bread and Puppet 2011 Community Theater Workshop with Julian Boal, Boston, MA.
  • CONTEMPORARY DANCE 2019 aMaSSiT Choreography Course at Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA 2018 Contemporary Dance Making Training through Lion’s Jaw Festival.

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - Health
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Literature
  • Media
  • Music
  • Theater
  • Visual/Crafts

Fee range:

$200

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Communications
  • Arts Integration - Health
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Mathematics
  • Arts Integration - Physical Education
  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Literature
  • Media
  • Music
  • Theater
  • Visual/Crafts

Fee range:

$200

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • caravan
  • wireless mic
  • basic lighting

Fee Range:

$500 - $40,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

2

Maximum Number of Performers:

10