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-[[File:‎Mariko_Tanabe_Danse.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|Mariko Tanabe]]
+[[File:Meenaakshi_Productions.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|Meena Murugesan]]
-Renowned for her electric stage presence, her passionate, sensuous and highly stylized works are inspired by the richness of her intercultural and metaphysical explorations. These explorations include research into her own Japanese Canadian heritage, as well as the fiery explosive dynamics of Flamenco dance forms. She is drawn by the mysteries of the human spirit and is inspired by ancient mystical traditions, mythological archetypes and religions.
+Meena is a dancer and filmmaker dedicated to creating sacred spaces. Through her art, she seeks to bridge barriers between culture, gender, community, class and form in order to explore the differences that separate/unite us and find the essence that binds us together. Her experience in training and performing 'Bharatha Natyam' - a south Indian dance form (25 years), film (10 years) and eastern energetic bodywork therapies (3 years), inspire her to find the spaces where these forums meet and have the power to raise consciousness. Meena has been fortunate to collaborate with remarkable artists, storytellers, dancers, musicians and activists in Canada, the United States, India, West Africa, Chile and Brazil.
-Her works have been presented in The Schwankhalle in Germany, the Duncan Center (Prague) in The Czech Republic, TanzIist! in Austria, The Festival Fringe Tomar’99 and 2000 in Portugal, at Tangente and in the OFF-FIND (Festival International de Nouvelle Danse) in Montreal, Festival Off d’Avignon, Festival International de Musicas Visuales in Mexico City, The Town Hall in Sheffield, Vermont, at many venues in New-York City, including PS122, The Joyce Soho and The Mulberry Street Theater and at Harbourfront in Toronto.
-She enjoys the process of collaboration with composers, musicians and visual artists and is the artistic director of her company Mariko Tanabe Danse in Montreal. She has a weekly radio dance chronicle on Radio Ville Marie. MARIKO TANABE ’s background includes work in traditional Japanese dance forms including Kabuki and Noh. She has also trained in Butoh, Flamenco, Middle Eastern Dance, experimental theatre, Alexander technique, yoga and the healing arts.
-For twelve years she worked with American Modern Dance pioneer Erick Hawkins with whom she was a principal dancer, teacher and associate rehearsal director. As a guest artist she has taught at several Universities and Art Centres throughout the world including Tanzwerk in Bremen, Germany, the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague, the National Film Academy in Prague, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., BellasArtes in Mexico City and the Musik Akademy in Dornbirn,Austria.
-Her work "Narcisse en Silence" is in the permanent archives of the German Tanzfilm Institute in Bremen. In 1996 she was Assistant to the Artistic Director and Rehearsal Director or Compagnie Marie Chouinard in Montreal. She is the recipient of awards by the NAJC Endowment Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, La Ville de Montreal, The Ministry of Culture and Communications of Québec. The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and The Laidlaw Foundation for her choreography.
+Meena's multi-disciplinary artistic practice is fuelled by her passion for dance, visual imagery, personal transformation and social change. Through art, she creates, shares and encourages the expression of under-represented stories with the hope of re-balancing existing power dynamics within society. She strives to build bridges between culture, gender, community, class and art forms in order to explore the complexities of human existence, while acknowledging the intrinsic connections that link us together. Meena's hybrid choreographic vision stems from twenty-two years of training and performing the South Indian classical dance form Bharatha Natyam, two years of studying with contemporary African dance pioneer Zab Maboungou, a decade of creating visual imagery and five years of training in eastern energetic bodywork therapy. Her ongoing practice of Chi Kung, Shiatsu and Chi Nei Tsang continues to spark her quest to free the body/mind beyond the limitations of cultural codes and social expectations. Meena's desire to work and choreograph with movement in ways that fall outside the classical Bharatha Natyam form comes from a sincere need to express the complex realities of her modern urban experience. In addition, structured improvisation is an essential part of Meena's work as it allows her to draw upon the authenticity and magic that exists in the present moment. She has developed this craft for the past five years, performing improvised Indo-contemporary dance works with remarkable live musicians and spoken word poets such as Bell Orchestre, LAL, Kalmunity Vibe Collective, Jason ‘Blackbird’ Selman, and Kamala Sundararajan. Until 2000, Meena toured internationally with the Nrithyalaya Dance Company under artistic director Vasantha Krishnan. In addition to more than a dozen improvised dance works, her choreographic repertoire includes: home/Body (2009, 40-minutes), AVAL (2008, 26-minutes), Unravelled (2006, 50-minutes) and Ekatva (2006, 15-minutes). Since 2004, Meena has performed her original choreographies and improvisational works in Canada, New York City, Niger, Chile and Brazil. Parallel to her dance career, Meena is a video artist and community arts educator with eight years of local and international experience collaborating with performing artists and marginalized groups such as youth, people of color and incarcerated women. She facilitates video and dance workshops in socio-political-cultural community organizations and is deeply inspired by the people who share these spaces. Currently, Meena is performing AVAL and developing two new choreographic works. She has also recently co-founded root*system with Anastasia Culurides and Pohanna Pyne Feinberg, a inter-disciplinary live arts ensemble that interplays elements of music, dance, video, lighting design, photography and soundscape to express the beauty, the tragedy and the surprises of life into tangible and multi-sensory experiences.
 = External Links =
-[http://www.marikotanabedanse.com Official Site]
+[http://www.myspace.com/meenaakshi Official Site]
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