Speakers

VID. PARVATHY BAUL

Parvathy Baul is a practitioner, performer and teacher of the Baul tradition from Bengal. She is also an instrumentalist, storyteller and a painter. She has performed in over 40 countries, including at prestigious concert halls and music festivals as Noh Theater in Kyoto, World Music Center in New York, Melbourne Arts Center and the Festival of World Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco.

She has collaborated with world’s leading theater director Eugenio Barba. She visits several dance, theatre and music institutions across the globe as a teacher. Her unbroken commitment to the Baul tradition earned her the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2019.