Our Story

About Mamangam
Dance Company

Our mission

"Everything in the world has rhythm. Everything dances" - Maya Angelou.

Mamangam, an Indian contemporary dance company founded by Rima Kallingal, aims at creating a unique contemporary dance language reflecting Kerala’s culture, art and history.

Artistic Director

Rima Kallingal dance journey began as early as when she was 4 years old. Little did she know that these first little dance steps she took would set the rhythm and course of her life in the years to come.
She did her arangetram in Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam under Kalamandalam Ranganayaki in Thrissur,Kerala. But before long, a second evolutionary stage in her dance career was to appear when she moved to Bangalore for higher studies. She had the opportunity of meeting Mayuri Upadhya and Madhuri Upadhya , reputed choreographers and founders of Nritarutya Dance company, who introduced her to world of contemporary dance.
Her 4 year stint with Nritarutya saw her performing, training and choreographing a wide array of world dance styles that also included various martial art genres.
This short but eventful journey took her to the third evolutionary stage of her life as a dancer. It led to the thought of wanting to create a space of her own in her homeland of Kerala; a space in which to experiment and explore her individual perceptions. And this was how Mamangam came to be.

Our Instructors

Ambili Dinesh

Ambili has loved dancing from a very young age. She has been a ZIN member since March 2019. Being a licensed Zumba instructor, her classes are highly energetic and dynamic.

Akash Sivan

Akash has been pursuing dance as a profession for more than six years now. He represents the underground hip hop scene of Kerala. Akash has completed courses on various street dance styles, trained under prominent artists from inside and outside the country, been part of state and national level competitions and has represented Kerala Hiphop community in several battles. He is a passionate teacher and believes in sharing his learning and experiences with the curious mind.

Pratheesh Ramdas

With more than ten years of experience in teaching and performing, Pratheesh Ramdas is an underground hip-hop dancer who has worked towards propagating the culture by organizing workshops and hip-hop jams. He has been a part of the performance wing of Mamangam Dance Company and The Floor. Pratheesh trained the lead cast of the Malayalam movie, Thallumala. He has stepped into the world of direction with the music video ‘Rise’ featuring Rima Kallingal and the video song ‘Watta’ from the film 1744 White Alto. Pratheesh has spanned out his choreography work to films, advertisements and music videos.

Aloshy Amal

Aloshy has been in the field of dancing for twelve years with his training expanding to different styles. His genres of training include contemporary dance, kalaripayattu, acrobatics and aerial act. Aloshy has completed his diploma in movement arts from Attakalari center for movement arts and mixed media in Bangalore. His choreography experiences include multiple competitions and shows at school and corporate levels. He has also ventured into choreography and performance in music videos. He has conducted contemporary dance workshops and classes across Kochi and Bangalore. Aloshy kick started Mamangam’s Movement club, an initiative to bring together the dance community in Kochi.

Greeshma Narendran

Greeshma is a graduate in Performing Arts (dance major) from Christ University, Bangalore. Her dance journey began with Bharatanatyam and later the world of contemporary dance enticed her. She has trained in contemporary dance under different Indian and International artists in the field. Greeshma has more than nine years of experience in performing and has performed with different dance companies based in Bangalore and Kochi including Nritarutya. She is a part of Mamangam’s performance wing and has designed choreographies for the company.

Theertha E Poduval

Theertha is a Kalakshetra alumnus and has more than ten years of experience in dancing. She wants to use dance as a medium to move, relax and become aware of ourselves. Being a passionate Bharatanatyam dancer, Theertha seeks to get a deeper understanding through constant learning and unlearning which would aid her in improving and exploring herself as an artist.

Santhosh Madhav

As a native Keralite, Santhosh was drawn to Kalaripayattu, one of the oldest martial arts in the world. He graduated from ‘Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts’. During the course, he trained alongside masters of many other disciplines like Contemporary dance, Ballet, Bharathanatyam, Contact improvisation, Capoeira, Feldenkrais and Pilates. This vast knowledge has greatly influenced and expanded Santosh’s world and allowed him to infuse his performances with elements of yoga and martial arts, creating a unique art form, one indicative of his own unique creative movement journey. As a senior facilitator, Santhosh has had the opportunity to travel the world and assist in multiple full length multimedia productions such as ‘Trans avatar’, ‘For Pina’, ‘Meidhwani’.

Janani Jayprakash

Janani’s obsession with House music for over a decade inspired her to train her footwork for several years continuously. Now, she doesn’t move to the music but the music moves her. Janani finds joy in sharing her knowledge and learning with the community.

Paul Paul

Paul has a teaching experience of more than ten years. He studied music with scholarship at Berklee College of music (Boston) in drums and music business. He also studied music and dance in Ghana (Africa) through an exchange program from Berklee College of music. Paul is a national gold medalist in latin ballroom in 2012. He started Paul Paul academy of rhythm and movement in Thrissur in 2015. He has been training and taking kids for National level Latin championships since 2017.

Paris Laxmi

Paris Laxmi was born in Aix-en-Provence, France to a family of artists. Laxmi started her training in Bharatanatyam at the age of 9 with Armelle Choquard (disciple of Sri V.S. Muthuswami Pillai and Smt. Sucheta Chape- kar) and later from Dominique Delorme (disciple of Sri V.S. Muthuswami Pillai and Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam), also under Smt. Sucheta Chapekar in Pune and at Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam's Nrithyodaya School of Dance in Chennai.
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