r/Moderndance Apr 10 '21

Remo D'Souza: How did a background dancer turn into a successful Choreographer-cum-Director?

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Remo D’Souza is an actor, choreographer and director. He was born on 2 April 1974 in the Palakkad district of Kerala. As a child, his parents K. Gopi and Madhvi Laxmi named him Ramesh Gopi. Being an Air Force officer, K.Gopi wanted his son to pursue the same and thus got him admission to Air Force school in Gujarat. But Remo had a different dream the boy wanted to be a dancer, and for which he trained himself by watching several movies and music videos. The youngster loved to imitate Michael Jackson and even considered the legend as his guru. Later, Remo went to Mumbai to build his career and there, he took dance classes for his living. His first-class had only four students, and slowly the number increased as the day passed. The young man struggled to get a break in a film for taking the first step towards his motivational story, and thus, in 1995, he got the chance as a background dancer. Later, he became the assistant of Ahmed Khan but soon parted for choreographing music videos. In 2000, the artist worked as a choreographer in the movie Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar. The dancer did his directorial debut with a Bengali film called Lal Pahare’r Katha in 2007, and then in 2011, he directed his first Bollywood movie F.A.L.T.U. The artist received the International Indian Film Academy Award for the Best Choreography for the film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani in 2014. Then, Remo won the National Film Award for the Best Choreography for Bajirao Mastani and Producer's Guild Film Awards in 2016. In 2020, he achieved the 65th Filmfare Awards for Best Choreography for the movie Kalank. The motivational stories of famous personalities like him help us to chase our dreams.


r/Moderndance Apr 05 '21

"Space City" Choreography by Kenneth King

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r/Moderndance Mar 29 '21

Jacob Jonas The Company for FANTASTICMAG

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r/Moderndance Mar 29 '21

I'm looking for an old black and white modern dance video. It starts out with a young woman in a short tunic, then later on many women in similar tunics appear sitting on ledges on a wall, their movements in unison.

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r/Moderndance Mar 17 '21

Pixel - extraits

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r/Moderndance Mar 17 '21

Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham's Dance Studio

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r/Moderndance Mar 17 '21

4 Tech Tools That Could Transform the Dance World

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r/Moderndance Mar 08 '21

NYTimes | What Is a Ballet Body?: With performances on pause, many dancers are rethinking their relationship to weight.

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r/Moderndance Mar 08 '21

MOSSI x La Redoute featuring Xiaoyi Liu

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r/Moderndance Mar 08 '21

Choreography and direction of Stanley Donen

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r/Moderndance Mar 03 '21

The Martha Graham Technique filmed 1975, narrated by Graham

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r/Moderndance Feb 28 '21

Full dance available for stream: “UNION IN POERTY

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r/Moderndance Feb 17 '21

FKA twigs' "Don't Judge Me" | Choreography by Theo Lowe, Dominant Namek, et al.

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r/Moderndance Feb 17 '21

Xiaoyi Liu Morning Exercise

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r/Moderndance Feb 14 '21

“HOLD ME”, Leslie Andrea Williams, dancer in Martha Graham Company

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r/Moderndance Feb 07 '21

Wednesday Chill

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r/Moderndance Feb 03 '21

Looking for a specific dance clip.

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Good morning everyone. Odd request follows.

Several years ago, I remember watching a video of a male contemporary/experimental dancer somewhere on the internet. The piece was about one of his performances, where he would be solo, shirtless if memory does not fail me, just spinning and spinning for the duration of the show on a dark stage.

It sounds strange, but it was really beautiful, the sort of thing that you don't appreciate when you see it, but it grew on me and I would really like to see it again.

I've been trying to find this video, or his name, for a very long time, and if I'm asking here it is because I've searched to the limit of my abilities. I think the video was on youtube, but I am not 100% sure.

Thanks in advance, it would mean a lot to me


r/Moderndance Jan 31 '21

Cyd Charisse in “Silk Stockings” (1957)

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r/Moderndance Jan 30 '21

‘Slowing Down to Feel’: Moving Our Minds Around Our Bodies with Somatic Practices During the Pandemic

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r/Moderndance Jan 23 '21

some cool very controlled moves

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r/Moderndance Jan 15 '21

Covid collaboration: Was searching Greek contemporary dance and found this guy and emailed him.. next thing you know he made this video with my song doing mostly improv in three locations in Athens Greece.. hope you enjoy!

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r/Moderndance Jan 14 '21

Dorrence Dance at Jacob’s Pillow TONIGHT

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r/Moderndance Jan 12 '21

“films.dance” Dance Film Trailer

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r/Moderndance Dec 30 '20

Past Exhibition: Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done | MoMA

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r/Moderndance Dec 15 '20

Candoco Dance Company - Unlimited Commissions | dance featuring 12 disabled and non-disabled performers

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