tanveer alam
Toronto-based Tanveer Alam started his Kathak training with Sudeshna Maulik
and continued further nuanced studies with guru Sandhya Desai. Alam is a
2019 graduate of western contemporary dance from Dance Arts Institute of
Canada (DAI).
Alam has performed in the works of Rina Singha, Lata Pada, Padmini Chettur,
Brandy Leary, Harikishan S. Nair, Sashar Zarif, Lucy Rupert, and Peter Chin, to
name a few. As an emerging choreographer, he has presented work at
SummerWorks Festival, Battery Dance Festival +, MAI - Montréal, arts,
interculturels, CanAsian Dance Festival: Grit Short Dances, and Tangente. As
an emerging curator, he has supported programming initiatives with
Dancemakers, TOES FOR DANCE, and Flemingdon Park Toronto Public Library.
Across the 24/25 season, Alam performed solo presentations at Vilaya Festival
(Pittsburgh), The New York Kathak Festival (New York), and Navatman Black
Box Baithak (New York). He was a commissioned choreographer for
Sampradaya Dance Creation’s 35th year anniversary work, Salaam Rahman,
featuring AR Rahman’s oeuvre performed by the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra.
Most recently, he premiered his collaborative work Ibaadat with co-choreographer Barkha Patel, at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (Mumbai), and his choreographed double bill NAKSHA at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.
abstract
State of the Artist / Pathways to Professionalism
Panel Discussion