Rajendra

There’s a nice article about my work on sf360. Read all about it…

I’ve taught Contact Improv in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Norway and Australia. I can’t really remember a time when contact improvisation wasn’t part of my life. I’m the same age as Contact Improv. I think it must have come from my father, who was a national wrestling champion in Argentina. Before I could even walk I was being rolled and flung around by him. I grew up wrestling as a playful and loving practice. It wasn’t until I got to college that I found there was a name for it. Since that time I’ve studied a variety of physical forms: Contact Impov, Cuningham Technique, Release Technique, Butoh, Alexander Technique, Astanga Yoga, and Tai Chi with teachers Anna Halprin, Scott Wells, Sara Shelton Mann, Kathleen Hermsdoff, Simone Forte, Oguri, Akira Kasi, Viola Farber, Daniel Lepkoff… and Others.

Recently Rajendra has been focusing on making choreography for film. In 2009 year he was awarded the DANCE MOViES Commissions and was a resident at San Francisco Film Society’s FilmHouse. He was a 2008 recipient of the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange award. He directed and performed in his own multimedia group, The RK Corral, which was supported by grants form the Zellerbach Family Fund, had residencies at The LAB and 848 Community Space, and was nominated for multiple Isadora Duncan Awards and Lester Horton Dance Awards. From 1996 to 1997 he was the Associate Producer of House of Dance, which was broadcast bimonthly on San Francisco’s public access channel.

As a dancer Rajendra has had the privilege of collaborating with many wonderful artists: The Residents, Scott Wells, Sara Shelton Mann, Ilaan Egeland, Jon Weaver, Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers of Dandelion Dancetheater.