Connecting art forms

"Interconnect,” a fusion of modern abstract dance movement with classical Indian music premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on November 30, 2018. "A marriage made in heaven,” noted dancer and choreographer Astad Deboo of the collaboration with rudra veena player and Dhrupad exponent Baha’ud-din Dagar.

The show premiered the day after Deboo was awarded an excellence award at the Conde Nast Traveller India Readers’ Award at New Delhi. The performer was felicitated for his 50 years in the field of modern dance as well as his pioneering work with the hearing impaired for the last 20 years in Calcutta, Bangalore and Madras. "The Astad Deboo Dance Foundation has also mentored over 100 students and aims to provide creative training to able bodied and disabled artists,” noted Conde Nast’s press release.
Deboo is planning an interaction with the Chitrasena Dance Company in Colombo in December, and preparation for a new work premiering in 2019 on Mohandas Gandhi, in time for the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary.