Lifting
the Veil
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Rajika Puri
is an exponent of two forms of Indian
Temple dance: Bharatanatyam and Odissi, which she has performed all
over Europe, Latin America, the US, and at home in India. She has a
BA in English literature, and a Masters from NYU which involved the
study of movement forms, including dance and the martial arts, from
an anthropological perspective. She writes and lectures on Indian
dance, music, and theatre, as well as western theatre, flamenco, and
modern dance.
Currently Rajika is involved in several projects: Bharatanatyam
Variations a ‘post-modern’ approach to classical Indian
dance; Flamenco Natyam – a mosaic of flamenco and Indian
classical dance; a Festival of New South Asian drama at the Lark
Theater; and a production of Euripides’ The Bakkhai for
which she is choreographer and movement coach.
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Peter Manuel
is an authority on the music of both North India and the
Caribbean. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Art,
Music, and Philosophy at John Jay College and teaches graduate-level
courses at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of several
books, including Popular Musics of the Non-Western World
(Oxford University Press), Cassette Culture: Popular Music and
Technology in North India, and Caribbean Currents: Caribbean
Music from Rumba to Reggae (Temple University Press).
He plays sitar, flamenco guitar, and jazz piano. He spent about
five years in North India doing research and studying sitar. He has
made a video on Indo-Caribbean music.
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George Wolfe
is Professor of Music at Ball State University where he has
published articles in the fields of music, interfaith studies, and
poetry. As a musician has shared the stage with the United States
Navy Band and the Canadian Brass among others. He is a featured
soloist on five volumes of the compact disk series America's
Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax which includes some of
the greatest names in classical saxophone artistry.
Dr. Wolfe has served as an artist-in-residence at
universities in the United States, Austria, Canada, France, and
India. He has studied Hindustani music in New Delhi and at the Ah
Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California. In 1997, Ball
State University awarded Dr. Wolfe its Outstanding Creative
Endeavor award for his compact disk on music and cosmology
entitled Lifting the Veil, and for his presentation of
parallel religious teachings in Hinduism and Christianity, parts of
which he will present here. He has lectured and performed at major
religious centers in the United States including the Chautauqua
Institution.
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