ABOUT SHILPIKA

 

Brought up in Jorhat, Assam, Shilpika Bordoloi’s initiation to dance started very early. At the age of three, she began her training in the Indian Classical dance form of Manipuri under Guru Rathindra Sinha and later on with Padmashree Darshana Jhaveri. Then she went on to study Bharatanatyam under Padmashree Leela Samson, and later worked in her company, Spandan from 2003-2004. Gradually, she went into the world of Martial Arts and is trained in Chi-Gong, Martial Arts (Chinese and Korean) including Tai-Ji-Quan under Sensei Rashid Ansari along with Voice and Theatre Movement.

 

She holds a master’s degree in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi.

 

She has spent considerable amount of time, travelling along the river Brahmaputra and researching on her multi-media project called “Katha Yatra”. A culmination of this project was creation of the physical theatre piece “Majuli” which has been showcased across Assam, rest of India, UK and HongKong from 2014 onwards.

 

She is a visiting faculty to National School of Drama (NSD), NSD (Theatre-in-Education Wing) and School of Film and Television (SIFT). She is also actively involved in yoga and is a certified yoga teacher providing workshops to people of different backgrounds.

 

Shilpika has received India’s most prestigious National Young Artist Award. She has been conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademy Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2015 for contemporary/experimental dance. She is the founder member of Brahmaputra Cultural Foundation and has created a Centre of cultural exchanges called NOI at Jorhat, Assam.

 

She is the playwright, lead performer and director of A Human Endeavour, a play which has also been showcased by the National School of Drama as part of its Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2020.