Outreach and Education
Divya’s experience in tailoring target specific workshops covers the following mediums- schools, University, Dance professionals and Community groups.
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Was invited to speak at MakerMonday session at Birmingham Open Media- April 2016.
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Collaborated with technologists as part of Interactivos Birmingham.Watch the film wherein Divya talks about her project.
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Delivered an Indian culture and dance workshop at Bedford School.
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Delivered an interactive dance based activity for University of Hertfordshire.
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Was part of community project titled ‘Our Country’ by Stevenage World Forum that targeted bespoke dance workshops for a host of schools in and around Stevenage.
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Presented Bollywood and Bharatanatyam workshop for HighField School, Letchworth.
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Facilitated Bharatanatyam workshop for young kids at The Hat Factory, Luton.
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Presented South Asian Dance movement-based lecture session for dance undergraduates at Roehampton University.
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Presented my part practice, part research paper on South Asian Dance movement analysis for the postgraduate choreography students at Roehampton University.
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Was invited to host a ‘kathak’ dance wokshop for commercial dance professionals in Madrid, Spain.
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Was invited to create a choreographic piece with the 2nd and 3rd year dance students at University Campus’ Ipswich dance company- Forefront Dance during February –March, 2013 followed by a workshop in November 2013.
Teaching
Divya also teaches regularly in Stevenage and Peterborough with some of her students having showcased their talents in the past at the following events.
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Part of a curtain raiser performance at Colchester Arts Centre in July 2013.
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Pagrav Dance Company’s showcase- July 2010- presented ‘Celebration’.
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Brentwood Council’s competition in October 2010.
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Divya kasturi’s Students Showcase event at Gordon Craig Theatre in October 2011.
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Performed for World Tamil Forum’s Tamil New Years Day celebrations in Croydon on 14th April 2012, 2013.
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Divya’s young students Bruhashmy Gajan won the second prize in the Salangai Vinodham competition in September 2012.
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Performed ‘Vandana’ at Gordon Craig Theatre for Stevenage World Forum’s ‘Celebrate’ event in October 2012.
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Performed for North Hertfordshire Ethnic Minority annual meeting in Hitchin in November 2012.
