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Back in France in 2010, 2025 marks the Mandapa’s
to help my mother at 50 anniversary. While recent
th
Mandapa after my father
seasons focussed on honouring
passed away, I embraced the
a single culture each year, this
continuation of their life’s work.
milestone season celebrates 50
I further developed my focus on
performing Kathak authentically, cultures that have shaped the
teaching respectfully, and Centre’s history, presenting a
choreographing purposefully, non-exhaustive, yet rich, sample.
ensuring the rigour and vision of
This symbolic year also
the Centre endured.
seals my double legacy when I
Since 2022, after my mother's
received the Gandha Bandhan
passing, the legacy now rests
with me. I am fully determined from my Guru ji.
to carry forward Mandapa's As we embark on the next 50
vocation to promote performing years, Mandapa's mission is all
arts and its deeply-rooted,
the more essential: to strengthen
inclusive multicultural values.
its role as an unparalleled
In its small, 100-seat acoustic,
crossroads for artistic dialogue,
'baithak-like' auditorium,
Mandapa remains unwavering to inspire artists and audiences
in its founding values regarding beyond boundaries, to educate
the relationship between the future generations to foster
audience and the artist. Here,
the profound brotherhood that
right at the foot of the stage,
performing arts can induce
the 'spectacular' rhymes with
between peoples, and to proudly
emotion and authenticity,
transmitted by the artists, carry forward the legacy of its
whether they are culturally founders, Milena and Roger,
native or 'masters by heart'. under their loving blessing.
‘Place Milena Salvini’, square in front of
Gandha Bandhan ceremony, Guru Mandapa, inaugurated in 2023, after the
Poornima 2025 founder in Paris
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