India Jazz Suites

The American Dance Festival in Durham North Carolina is one of the most prestigious dance festivals in North America. Their review of India Jazz Suites notes: "To say they've got rhythm would go beyond understatement, based on performances Thursday at the American Dance Festival.....

Pandit Chitresh Das, 60, and Jason Samuels Smith, 34, not only have rhythm; they are rhythm. They live and breathe rhythm.

They got on top, beneath, around and even inside the rhythm and took the audience along in an amazing performance that had the Page Auditorium audience on its feet.

Das, with bare feet and 10 rows of bells that encircled each ankle, and Smith, with taps on shoes, cast their individual spells in solos. Together with six gifted musicians, they really created magic as their rhythmic patterns flowed in an ocean of percussion that lapped the shores of India and New York City."

India Jazz Suites is ready to tour in Europe...we hope you join us in bringing this extraordinary project to your community.

• article submitted by: Alison Loerke, ALIA Productions