The Elephant House Project

The Elephant House Project places the dance and music of ancient South Asian worlds at the centre of making of new performance artworks. It brings together professional artists working in diverse areas of performance art and presents opportunities to explore the relevance and potential of cultural and intellectual linkage through ancient dance and music in a collaborative environment. Additionally, the Elephant House Project connects and exposes knowledge and invites interaction, to build an open-house model of artistic pursuit, connected disciplines and modes of access.

Artistic Director of Lingalayam Dance Company, Anandavalli, joins two of the most exciting musicians to have emerged from India in recent years, Anil Srinivasan and Sikkil Gurucharan.

Both from Chennai, the western trained classical pianist Anil Srinivasan and the stunning Carnatic vocalist Sikkil Gurucharan have recorded four landmark albums together. Srinivasan balances a career as both a musician and a leading educator in the United States. Evolving a new genre through the blending of western and Carnatic styling, his most acclaimed work has been with childhood friend Sikkil Gurucharan, the third generation of a family of well known Carnatic musicians. The groundbreaking duo were speakers at the recent inaugural TED India new ideas conference in Mysore.

Depicting the role of the woman across the ages, A Million Eyes revitalises classical Indian poetry as far back as the third century, teasing out its universal themes.

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Rasa Unmasked was a sensuous, contemporary dance work that shed new light on India’s most vital aesthetic theory. The performance premiered in March 2009 in Sydney, Australia – before an international tour to Malaysia, Singapore and India.

Rasa Unmasked was the result of a collaboration between Anandavalli & Australia’s Lingalayam Dance Company, Ramli Ibrahim & Malaysia’s Sutra Dance Theatre and ethnomusicologist / composer, Alex Dea – all pioneers of classical art forms in contemporary contexts.

Click here to visit the Rasa Unmasked website and watch the season at the Opera House, behind the scenes footage and photos from the tour.