Cleveland Aradhana schedule - 2010

[arasi]

CML,
Yes. The way we used to wait for the dIpAvaLi malars every year! Those dance pictures were in black and white.but the expressions came alive in them. A whole song was depicted in a series of pictures in a few pages and that was enough.to imagine all of the abhinayam for even those who did not see a performance.

[cienu]

It will be a miracle if that divine bird with the clipped wings can soar once again. You almost tried. Congratulations! Any pictures, cienu?

5 days after MKR left Cleveland after having ignited the spark, the divine bird did soar on Thursday evening at the Comfort Inn Ball Room !! (8/4/2010).
On the sidelines of the Cleveland Festival, (and 54 years after she last danced in public) Smt Radha Viswanathan gave an impromptu demonstration of Abhinaya for Kalki's "Malai Pozhudinilaye" weaving a spell on the audience. Gayathri Venkataraghavan accompanied wonderfully on vocal.
Sitting on her wheel chair and with just the left hand (as her right hand is immobile) and facial expressions Smt Radha charmed the group of mostly dance students and teachers and had most of them in tears. The picture of this rare event is courtesy of Shankar Ramachandran of Columbus (Grandson of Kalki and son of Late Anandhi Ramachandran)

[Ramasubramanian M.K]

Cienu: What a spirit!!! Indomitable is an understatement!!

Wish you all the BEST for today's concert!! Aishu I am sure would carry her grandmother to loftier musical heights!!

Cienu,YOU can chalk this Cleveland Saga to your string of achievements in fostering your Mom's desires and Aishu's accomplishments. There is something to be said for those who do not merely talk about perpetuating legacies BUT ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AS YOU HAVE DONE!!
Regards to your Mom and Aisu.
Ramesh mama.

[cmlover]

Speechless!

[rshankar]

Cienu - how LOVELY!! May be you can get things to come full circle and get your mother to do this to Aishwarya's singing!! (after all, she was used to dancing to the singing of her mother!)

[Nick H]

cienu, it is lovely to see the pictures: looking forward to seeing you all back in Chennai