Kunpen Lama Gangchen Association

Focus India: Opening

from 8.00 p.m. – Opening and welcoming greetings

Followed by SILSILA show

SILSILA. Indian classical and contemporary dance show

with Sooraj Subramaniam (MY/AU/BE) 

Dance, Indian arts

60 min

free entrance with donation | Reservation recommended
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The opening event of CROSS Festival is a series of pieces featuring Indian dancer Sooraj Subramaniam, an internationally renowned exponent of Indian classical dance. The programme brings together Odissi, Bharatanatyam, and contemporary dance, intertwining nritta (pure dance) and abhinaya (expressive dance), reinterpreting traditional themes in a modern key and exploring the nuances and peculiarities of the various worlds.

The performance opens with two Bharatanatyam pieces. The first, Nandi Chol, meaning “celestial bull,” is dedicated to Neelakanta, the blue-throated lord. This is followed by an original choreography by the artist: a devotional song entitled Kirtanam – Maamava Meenakshi.
The programme continues with two Odissi pieces: Pallavi – Kalavati, which creates a tableau of moving images and celebrates the balance between pure and expressive dance, and Astapadi – Priye Carusile, which draws on medieval love songs. The final piece is Nimbus, a contemporary work created and performed by Sooraj Subramaniam, inspired by the concept of viraha, or love in separation, a central theme in classical Indian poetry.

Credits
Nandi Chol. Rhythmic composition and choreography: Guru Adyar K. Lakshmanan (1933-2014) | Dance: Sooraj Subramaniam

Kirtanam – Maamava Meenakshi. Rhythmic composition and choreography: Guru Adyar K. Lakshmanan (1933-2014) | Dance: Sooraj Subramaniam

Pallavi – Kalavati. Choreography: Guru Debaprasad Das (1932-1986) | Dance: Sooraj Subramaniam

Astapadi – Priye Carusile. Choreography: Guru Debaprasad Das | Dance: Sooraj Subramaniam

Nimbus – Choreography and performance: Sooraj Subramaniam | Music composition: Osama Abdulrasol

Sooraj Subramaniam is an internationally renowned choreographer, dancer, and innovator. He trained in Bharatanatyam and Odissi at the Sutra Dance Theatre, in Kathak with Urja Desai Thakore, and in Western classical dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has collaborated with Srishti, Akademi, Balbir Singh Dance Company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Nicole Kohler, Kalpana Raghuraman, Seeta Patel, and the Maghenta Collective. His work challenges aesthetic boundaries, fusing Indian dance traditions with contemporary influences to create a hybrid and deeply personal artistic expression.

Credits 

Choreography and performance: Sooraj Subramaniam | Musical composition: Osama Abdulrasol

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Sinfonia H2O
Tecnologia Filosofica (IT)

performance
Duration: 40 minutes

Event In collaboration with MAGGIORE DANZA

Sinfonia H2O is a tribute to the essence of water, sacred source of life, origin of everything and guardian of memory. This work by Tecnologia Filosofica turns out to be a collective ritual, sound and visual; a symphony between dance and sound to reflect on the withering of our time and the need to keep our imagination alive, today more than ever. The experience invites us to immerse ourselves in a profound reflection on the fragile harmony of our planet, evoking the link between life and the climate change that threatens it. The stage is transformed into an archipelago of mirrors, where the body comes alive and the flow of sounds and actions envelops us. Singular objects -springs, scales, hourglasses- emerge as instruments in an imaginary alchemic laboratory. In this space of wonder, everything merges: water becomes a voice, the body becomes a wave and space a single universe: when you look at water, you look at the whole of humanity.

Credits

Concept and Creation: Francesca Cinalli and Paolo De Santis | Choreography: Francesca Cinalli | Composition and live sound: Paolo De Santis | Performers: Francesca Cinalli, Aldo Torta, Paolo De Santis | Dramaturgy: Ornella D’Agostino | Production: Tecnologia Filosofica – Traiettoria di ricerca Il Corpo Rituale | Co-production: Fondazione CROSS ETS | With the support of: Lavanderia a Vapore and Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, winner of the Bando Residenze Coreografiche 2019; Marche Teatro and Shanghai International Dance Center, selected for the Bando Crossing The Sea 2019; Italian Cultural Institute of Seoul (Korea); Art Center IDA; Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile 2022

Francesca Cinalli, dancer and choreographer, and Paolo De Santis, musician and percussionist, within the collective Tecnologia Filosofica, are pursuing a personal research trajectory, Il Corpo Rituale. Francesca Cinalli is a graduate of IAT-GONG Scuola Biennale di Musica Danza Teatro dei Popoli in Genoa, where she practices and studies with masters from five continents: Tapa Sudana, Tadashi Endo, Karun Karan, Cecile Gordon, and Al Sheikh Nail Kesova. Paolo De Santis composes original soundscapes ranging from electroacoustic music to field recordings. He performed live the soundtrack for Solitudo at Torino Jazz Festival 2019. He collaborates with noise musician K. Haino for Hidden Body at Fabbrica Europa 2018. He collaborates with Luca Morino and Pier Luigi Pusole for 13600Hz, a concert for sewing machines by Sara Conforti at Artissima; with Phone Regis, he won the Non Solo Rock festival; with Onda Sonora, he won the Piceno Rock Festival, performing as a backing band for Planet Funk, Morgan, and Linea 77. For years they have been collaborating with national and international cultural institutions: Cross Project; Italian Cultural Institute of Jakarta, Indonesia; IIC of Los Angeles; IIC of Seoul, Korea; Cie Atou of Lyon for the creations Hydden Body and Limpid Sun, Triennale d’Arte Setouchi in Japan; with Iranian director Milad Tangshir for the VR film Hydrocosmos with the support of Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo and Coorpi, Museo del Cinema di Torino. In 2019 they are selected for the call Crossing The Sea, Marche Teatro in collaboration with Shanghai International Dance Center; in 2019 for the call Air Residenze Coreografiche Lavanderia a Vapore; in 2022 for the call Cura for the production Eco del Mondo. Since 2016 they have been realising the project CAMPI CREATIVI and since 2024 CAMPI GRAVITAZIONALI with people under 25 in synergy with Lavanderia a Vapore.

Entrance 10€ 

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Music and Spirituality – Classical Notes in the Temple of Heaven on Earth

programme

10.30 Masterclass “Lyric Singing, a practice of well-being” with
Carles Exposito – posturologist, expert in the care and well-being of the voice,
Federico D.E. Sacchi – opera singer
Gabriella Sborgi – opera singer and yoga teacher. Open to all with reservation
17.30 Meeting with Lama Michel Rinpoche “The sound inside us”
21.00 Concert by Giuseppe Russo Rossi First viola of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan “dialogues with the artist” Pierfrancesco Pacoda
Here, music meets spirituality with a sound journey entrusted to the splendid artistic qualities of Giuseppe Russo Ross, a very young talent of classical music, first viola of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

The aim of the event is to revive the squares that return to being a place of meeting, of sharing, the ‘heart’ of small communities that also open up to a younger audience, who will be able to reflect on spirituality.

Giving, after the conversation, a small concert strictly in acoustic, designed specifically for the chosen places, with personal reinterpretations that will be possible to listen to only on this occasion.

The show will therefore be an absolute first, unique and unrepeatable, a production conceived and created only for the festival, a unicum in the Italian music scene.

Giuseppe Russo Rossi

“He is a complete musician, with an absolute musical talent, a brilliant technique and a warm, powerful and fascinating sound” (Salvatore Accardo)

“He is one of the most excellent violists I have ever met, gifted with a complete instrumental technique and a passionate and fiery temperament that instills enthusiasm in the instrumentalists with whom he collaborates. A perfect musician always open to experimentation to refine his performances” (Rocco Filippini)

Having graduated at 17 in violin and viola with top marks, honors and honorable mention from the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari, the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Hochschule der Kunste in Bern, Giuseppe Russo Rossi is first viola at the Teatro Alla Scala and a teacher at the Accademia della Scala.

Musica e Spiritualità is curated by Simona Eugenelo, artistic direction by Pierfrancesco Pacoda

Free admission

For further information: musicaespiritualitafestival@gmail.com

Art and Spirituality: A Journey to Kathmandu Exploring Artisan Workshops and Sacred Buddhist Sites
From October 28 to November 9, 2025

This journey will take us to discover Tibetan craftsmanship through the production of items linked to the spiritual practice of Buddhism. Together, we will learn to create incense, wearable protective amulets, and intricately carved furnishings for temples and sacred spaces.

We will be hosted at the Drubkhang Gangchen Labrang by the family of Lama Gangchen Rinpoche and guided by the artisans of his workshop. Additionally, we will have the opportunity to visit stupas, temples, and sacred sites in the Kathmandu Valley—one of the most revered places in the world for Buddhist practitioners—as well as monasteries connected to our lineage.

A workshop on making momo, the traditional Tibetan dumplings, will also be organized under the guidance of the Drubkhang kitchen team.

The detailed program and registration information can be found here

For more details, write to: massimo@kunpen.it