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May
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Talk with Venerabile Phra Pasura Dantamano “The path toward the future and the middle path” Venerable Phra Pasura Dantamano Phra Pasura Dantamano is a monastic
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Talk with Venerabile Phra Pasura Dantamano
“The path toward the future and the middle path”
Venerable Phra Pasura Dantamano
Phra Pasura Dantamano is a monastic member and serves as chief of international relations division at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple, which currently has 101 international branches. Introduced to Buddhism and meditation since early childhood, he has practiced the method of meditation known as “Dhammakaya” which was discovered by Phramongkolthepmuni. After his ordination, he was under the guidance of both Luang Phor Dhammajayo and Luang Phor Dhattajivo who are the abbot and vice abbot of the temple.
Before his monkshood, he lived a secular life, in which he went to school and university. He also worked as a hotel manager at Max’x Hotel and flight attendant with Thai Airways International before entered the monastic life. He has been assigned by the temple to share the knowledge of meditation and buddhist philosophy to general public worldwide. He has traveled to more than 75 countries, i.e. Egypt, Kenya, Cameroon, Guatemala, Romania, Bulgaria, Columbia, Cuba, Argentina, Denmark, Italy and etc. to conduct meditation workshops and retreats to people with many different backgrounds, religions, and faiths.
He is a teacher for the project “Peace Revolution” which is the online platform offering free guided meditation and self-development program. There are members registered with the website from more than 200 countries. Emphasizing on simple aspects of how to incorporate meditation and Buddhist philosophy in daily life, he introduces and shares to thousands of audiences the way to live a full and happy life beyond the material world.
Below are links of his talk and introductory videos.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindstories/permalink/981718498647724/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindstories/permalink/1048918675261039/
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1463487937114653&id=104876049642522
For more information, check his Facebook under the name “Pasura Dantamano”
Time
May 26, 2025 17:00 - 19:00
June
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Cross Festival 2025: Focus India an immersive weekend in the dance and body practices of India, between tradition and contemporaneity, curated by Antonella Usai. Cross Festival Tone of
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Cross Festival 2025: Focus India
an immersive weekend in the dance and body practices of India, between tradition and contemporaneity, curated by Antonella Usai.
Cross Festival Tone of Light kicks off on 13, 14, and 15 June, offering audiences a rich introduction to Indian performing arts through a vibrant programme of performances, workshops, and cultural encounters featuring internationally renowned artists and experts.
The focus explores how traditional art rooted in spirituality can endure over time and evolve beyond cultural and geographical boundaries, moving toward a contemporary perspective that is both meaningful and transformative.
Programme
13th JUNE
from 8.00 p.m. – Opening and welcoming greetings.
Followed by SILSILA. Odissi Classical dance show
with Sooraj Subramaniam (MY/AU/BE) and Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi (IN)
Dance, Indian arts
60 minutes
free entrance with donation
The opening event of this year’s CROSS Festival is a set of short performances featuring Indian dancers Sooraj Subramaniam and Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi, internationally renowned exponents of Indian classical dance. The programme mixes Odissi and contemporary dance, interweaving nritta (pure dance) and abhinaya (expressive dance), reinterpreting traditional themes in a modern key and exploring nuances and peculiarities of the different universes.
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.
Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi is a trainer in yoga, dance, and kalaripayattu, as well as a choreographer and Odissi dancer. She began her journey under Pratap Narayan, completing eight years of training and graduating from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. Since 2016, she has continued her studies with Bijayini Sathpathy and Pratibha Reddy, and has performed with the prestigious Nrityagram Dance Ensemble. As a teacher, she is recognised for the clarity of her instruction, both in practice and theory. Rukmini’s distinctive Odissi style and pedagogical approach are unique, leading her to travel extensively and engage in cross-disciplinary research that bridges Odissi with other traditional art forms.
Programme:
Mangalcharan – An auspicious beginning
with Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi
Mangalacharan is the opening rite of the traditional repertoire of classical Odissi dance. It’s a devotional invocation dedicated to Madatangi, worshipped in Tantra as goddess of of knowledge and the arts. The dance begins with the performer offering prayers to her Ishtadeva, the divine form to which she is most devoted. With elegant and meaningful gestures, the dancer expresses gratitude and respect, concluding with a greeting addressed to the Divine, the spiritual masters and the audience. Mangalacharan prepares the dancer and the audience for an inner journey, creating a link between art, devotion and beauty.
Credits
Choreography: Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra | Staged by: Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi
Pallavi
with Sooraj Subramaniam
Pallavi, meaning ‘to blossom’ or ‘to elaborate’, is a dance that builds on the sculptural poses characteristic of Odissi dance to create a picture of moving images. The Sabhinaya Pallavi is a fundamental component of Guru Debaprasad Das’s choreographic style, in which the rhythm of the pure dance merges with a short and intense expressive and sung part. The song that accompanies this dance, written by the Banamali saint, celebrates the beauty and magnetic power of Krishna that captivates and enraptures the heart of the beholder.
Credits
Choreography: Guru Debaprasad Das (1932-1986) | Staged by Sooraj Subramaniam
Battu
with Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi
Battu Nritta is a pure dance that emphasises the dancer’s extraordinary technical skill. Inspired by the refined sculptures that decorate temples, this dance transforms iconic poses carved in stone into fluid and elegant movements. Characterised by rhythm and precision, this choreography synchronises each gesture with the complex beats of the percussion. Battu Nritta is a tribute to the beauty of sacred architecture and the perfect harmony between art, dance and music.
Credits
Choreography: Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra | Staged by: Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi
Astapadi
with Sooraj Subramaniam
The Astapadi are a series of love songs written by the poet Jayadeva in the 12th century, which narrate and celebrate the love between Radha and Krishna. In this dance, Radha is consumed with anger at what she perceives as Krishna’s betrayal, while he begs her forgiveness and tries to win her back with words of praise and passion, comparing Radha to the moonlight that melts the darkness of his heart.
Credits
Choreography: Guru Debaprasad Das | Staged by Sooraj Subramaniam
Moksh – A journey to liberation
by Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi
Moksh is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘liberation’. This dance, true to its name, invites both dancer and audience to transcend the boundaries of the material world, leading to a state of pure transcendence. Through an intense and energetic crescendo, Moksh seems to suspend time, leaving both dancer and audience immersed in deep silence and contemplation. Moksh becomes a transformative experience, inviting inner connection and leaving an indelible mark on the hearts of those who witness it.
Credits
Choreography: Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra | Staged by: Rukmini Vyas Dwivedi
Nimbus
by and with Sooraj Subramaniam
Inspired by the Latin term for a luminous rain cloud, Nimbus is a contemporary dance performance that explores the concept of viraha, or love in detachment, a central theme in classical Indian poetry. Through an abstract reinterpretation of Indian dance, the work uses the image of the cloud to represent the swirl of expectations and desires, playing with light and shadow in a distant relationship with the beloved. This desire turns into loss and despair as the cloud fades and vanishes, inviting a new awareness.
Credits
Choreography and performance: Sooraj Subramaniam | Musical composition: Osama Abdulrasol
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Time
June 13, 2025 20:00 - 22:00
19jun18:0018:40Sinfonia H2OCross festival 2025 Place: Outdoors Level: Open to all18:00 - 18:40
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Sinfonia H2O Tecnologia Filosofica (IT) performance Duration: 40 minutesEvent In collaboration with MAGGIORE DANZA Sinfonia H2O is a tribute to
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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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Time
June 19, 2025 18:00 - 18:40
July
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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
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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
Time
July 20, 2025 10:30 - 23:00
Watch • Listen • Read
Request for prayers
Unione Buddhista Italiana
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KUNPEN LAMA GANGCHEN
Albagnano Healing Meditation CentreVia Campo Dell' Eva, 5
28813 Bee (VB) Italy
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reception@kunpen.it
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Via Marco Polo, 13
20124 Milan - Italy
cell: +39 351 882 4841
milano@kunpen.it
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