Sylvie Guillem entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1976 and by the age of 19 was named "Etoile" by Rudolph Nureyev. She has also danced with the Royal Ballet of London and the American Ballet Theater.
Sylvie is not just a ballet dancer, she has entered the modern dance scene in
Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid ‘films’, drawings and video installations as well as co-creating collaborative projects and artistic entities. Her work fleshes out trajectories and experiences of embodiment, site, ecology, survival, excess,
Urban space, communications, body, dreams, strangers, are concurrent issues she deals with in her works in various media. Her recent works are focused on the use of video projection to manipulate reality, which she considers ‘revealing another layer of reality’. As a part of Dumbo Arts Under the
Carlos Gardel is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Although his birthplace is disputed between Argentina, Uruguay and France, he lived in Argentina from the age of two and acquired Argentine citizenship in 1923. He grew up in the Abasto neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, located