Devi in Absolution (Malaysia / India)

MAVIN KHOO WITH OS ARUN

“Mavin Khoo is one of the most sculpturally exact of dancers, making exquisite musical and visual contrasts out of glittering velocity and meditative slowness.” The Guardian

“In Arun’s singing… artistic purity, the unsurpassed beauties of the bygone era and the sense of exhilarating movement were present.” The Indian Express

One of the world’s most exciting male solo dancers, trained in both classical Indian styles and western contemporary dance, collaborates with one of India’s most gifted Carnatic singers and musicians.

Mavin Khoo is a brilliant dancer and choreographer in high demand around the globe. He has collaborated and danced with some of the major choreographers of today including Akram Khan, Wayne McGregor and Christopher Bannerman. Beginning his training in Bharata Natyam at Kuala Lumpar’s Temple of Fine Arts and then on to London and New York, Khoo’s main studies were under renowned dance maestro Padma Shri Adyar K. Lakshmanin Chennai, India. He also studied Odissi and Bharata Natyam under Ramli Ibrahim, one of the original dancers of Sydney Dance Company.

Challenging notions of gender and tradition, Khoo’s original ideas and light-catching technique make him one of the world’s most fascinating artists in his genre.

O.S. Vaidyanathan or Arun, as he is more popularly called, is internationally acclaimed for the sonorous voice with which he exquisitly interprets devotional music with exhilarating musical personality and artistic purity.

Artists: Mavin Khoo (dancer), Ombathveli Subramaman Vaidyanathan  (O.S. Arun) (vocalist),  Prasanna Kumar Praveen Kumar (conductor), Vasanthappuram Ramamurthy Chandrashekar (mridingam), Gopala Raman Sridhar (flautist)

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