Ritika Ganguly is a transdisciplinary artist and entrepreneur who works across the humanities, sciences, arts, and philanthropy to create sustainable practices in humans’ relationships with nature and culture.
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Artistry
Ritika’s artistic practice engages with orally transmitted genres of music, poetry, and narration. She trains in the field with Baul poet-practitioners on what it means to develop aural skills in community. Her body of work explores power and hierarchy while creating a space for the stories of ordinary citizens.
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Vocal Coaching
Ritika offers Voice Yoga, a repertoire of techniques and practices that use breath, voice vibration, and resonance to stabilize and settle our nervous systems, as well as Lessons in Voice Culture, which uses the continuous loop cycle of the Tanpura and ‘mirror-singing’ as a format of interaction.
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Organizational Consulting
Through her LLC WeCollab, Ritika offers services tailored to empower individuals and organizations in their mission to create lasting impact, secure funding, and effectively communicate their stories. She supports organizations with grants and agile storytelling, and academic programs with humanizing scholarly research and performance practice.
Coming Up:
‘On Resonance’
October 20 @6-8pm
The Works Museum (9740 Grand Ave S, Bloomington, MN)
$185 for Bloomington residents | $200 for non-residents
Join McKnight Composer Fellow Ritika Ganguly in a session on what resonates. Using physical, acoustic tools to shape sound, we will explore the qualities that make our everyday richer, louder, alive, and enduring. This session is a part of ‘One Thousand and One Thresholds’ - a six-week multidisciplinary workshop series for adult artists co-led by Rupa Shenoy-Thadhani and Miré Regulus.
‘Love Songs in Motion’
September 27, @2-4pm (Soomaal House of Art)
November 7, @2:30-4pm (Indigenous Roots Arts Center)
November 15, @1-3pm (Semilla Center for Healing & Arts)
December 20, @7-9pm (Afghan Cultural Society)
Join composer and sound artist Ritika Ganguly in a participatory workshop on love songs in different languages. She invites us to bring our favorite poetry or song in a language of our choice. There will be a small, hollowed tub, with basic kitchen spices (you can also bring your own favorite spice!), and what we recite or sing into the tub will make the spices on it dance dynamically. We get to smell and see the shape of our songs!
This workshop is free, open to all ages, and is designed to bring ease, joy, and connection via languages that are close to our hearts. No prior singing experience is needed!