Actor-dancer Rima Kallingal is in her element when we meet at the Fine Arts Hall in Kochi, Kerala. She is “happily tired” for she and seven members from her dance company, Mamangam, have been practising daily for the past two months for their maiden show, Neythe—Dance of the Weaves.
Fabric, as Rima explained in her introduction, is the heart of ‘Neythe’, an accessory that is a constant companion to a human being from birth to death. “It embraces everything and shadows life itself,” she said.Actor-dancer Rima Kallingal and her dance company Mamangam presented their debut contemporary dance production Neythe, an ode to the handloom weavers of Chendamangalam, before a full house at Kochi’s Fine Arts Society Hall on Saturday, November 18.
Kochi recently witnessed a theatre workshop that had participants belonging to age group above 60. The workshop titled Theatre for Seniors was conducted by InsideOut Performance Collective at Rima Kallingal’s Mamangam Dance Company.
– The Times of India
Rima Kallingal’s dance studio, always tries to bring varied performances to the city and the latest was a kolkali programme by a team from Malabar. When the artistes beat their sticks and wove around each other in a fast rhythm, you forgot that the only music apart from their singing, was the sound of their beats.
– The Times of India
The piece was composed and conceived by Sreevalsan J Menon and choreographed by Rima Kallingal and Santosh Madhav of Mamangam Dance Company.
– The News Minute

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