dancing to Thyagaraja kritis

Lakshman · Post by **Lakshman** » 20 Oct 2008, 05:17

I have seen endarO mahAnubhAvulu being danced in bharatanatyam.

Umesh · Post by **Umesh** » 20 Oct 2008, 08:53

Several artists have danced to them. There was a whole program here by a local dancer teacher (NJ, USA) on his compositions.

Sri Ganapati Nee, Nagumomu, Nada Tanumanisham, etc. are popular in the dance circuit.

Rasikaas · Post by **Rasikaas** » 20 Oct 2008, 09:57

Thyagaraja's Nauka Charitham - an opera was danced to years ago by smt. Radha and her disciples have watched it a couple of times in DD...

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 20 Oct 2008, 10:14

In Sydney we have done a Thyagaraja Ramayana also selecting parts of Thyagaraja kritis to narrate incidents from the Ramayanam. Some songs that come to mind include Jo Jo Rama (Rithigowla), Sri Rama Padama (Amritavahini), Sara Sara Samaraika (Kuntalavarali), Seetha kalyanam (Kurinji).

radhakrishna · Post by **radhakrishna** » 20 Oct 2008, 11:39

rshankar wrote:Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant has done a full 'ekahArya' on tyAgarAja rAmAyaNam using tha bards compositions interspersed with some SlOkas. It is available on DVD. Some of the pancaratna kritis have also been danced to.

With all due respect to Dr. Ananda Shankar Jayant, I have not seen a better rendering than J.Suryanarayana Murthy's dance visualisation performed by his best student Shruthipriya available on DVD in Drishya Bharatham. It's available on www.JayQ.org

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 21 Oct 2008, 01:24

I have seen a wonderful production by Dhanajanan & Shanta ( of Kalakshetra) called "Tyagaraja Vaibhavam" which had many Tyagaraja kritis - (obviously

) - I don't remember the entire list - but there were Sriganapatini (SourashTra), nEnendu vetakudurA ( karnATaka bEhAg) and nidhi chAla sukhama (kalyANi) for sure..

-Ramakriya

DanceKala · Post by **DanceKala** » 02 Nov 2008, 01:51

My Guru B Bhanumati of Bangalore has choreographed "Vidulaku Mrokedha" by Tygaraja. She has even choreographed group dances for Shyama Shastry's "Amba Kamakshi" and MutthuswamiDikshitar's "SreeMahaganapathi Ravathumaam" in Gowla. We presented these items for the Trinity festival.

ramapati · Post by **ramapati** » 25 Nov 2008, 12:23

My daughter, K. Vipanchi, under the tutelage of Guru Smt. Kanaka Sudhakar (disciple of Dhananjayan), has performed Bharatanatyam to the Pancharatna Kritis of Tyagaraja, in group, in Bhakti Pravah series of Chinmaya Mission, New Delhi in 2006. She has performed for 'Jagadananda Kaaraka' subsequently at various places, depicting whole Ramayana through it.

schitrabhanu · Post by **schitrabhanu** » 16 Nov 2009, 06:34

Has anybody done Bharatanatyam items to Thyagaraja kritis? any videos available?

balusatya · Post by **balusatya** » 23 Nov 2009, 21:18

I have witnessed one arranged by Viswapriya @MA longback by Dananjayans.-Thiagaraja Charithram.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 27 Nov 2009, 22:49

Thanks Ravi. Very nicely done. The thulasi scene was nicely set up, quite serene and it brought back memories of such daily activities in village agraharams. When the 'thualasi' song began, I got the feel for how the rest of the nATyam is structured. BTW, Visakha Hari's Thyagaraja Charithram upanyasam goes well with this program. It will provide the context for those who do not know the various stories depicted in the NATyam.

ksl · Post by **ksl** » 29 Nov 2009, 00:49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff8mjVpTHj4