Masterclass by Surupa Sen @NCPA

An NCPA Presentation

Topic – Techniques for Longevity in an Indian Dance Career

This master class emerges from a long and sustained engagement with Odissi as a living, breathing practice. Led by Surupa Sen, it reflects on longevity not as the prolonging of a career, but as the careful cultivation of a relationship between body, mind, and form over time.

Through guided movement and attentive exploration, dancers are invited to experience the body as an interconnected field – where breath, weight, rhythm, and alignment remain in constant dialogue with attention and intent. The work emphasises clarity over force, listening over strain, and precision that arises from awareness rather than effort alone. In this approach, technique becomes a means of sustaining vitality – allowing the dance to deepen rather than erode with years of practice.

This master class is shaped by the pedagogical ethos of Nrityagram, where training unfolds through continuity, repetition, and close attention to process. Within this lineage, learning is not accelerated but absorbed; knowledge is transmitted through daily practice, shared observation, and the gradual refinement of perception. The class brings this way of working into the studio at NCPA, offering dancers an experience of technique as lived inquiry rather than fixed form.

At its core is a rigorous yet gentle proposition: when body and mind are trained together, dancing becomes not an act of expenditure but one of renewal – enabling the dancer to remain present, responsive, and rooted through the many seasons of an Odissi life.

Open to all Classical dance practitioners.

For details regarding registration, please call: 8879114939 / 8879313834
Email: mdsouza@ncpamumbai.com/ashetty@ncpamumbai.com