Natyanjali Dance Festival
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rshankar
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The website is very addicting..
Some comments (and they represent only my thoughts and not the views of the management!):
Prof. Chandrasekhar continues to amaze me at his age: beautiful araimandi, lovely, crisp nritta and subtle but effective emoting for the audience and communing with the divine!
It is SAD that except for some notable exceptions, when many women dancers aquire the maturity to evolve from a mere performing artist to a practitioner of the nAtya yOga, their bodies are no longer aesthetic instruments. They go from 'idaiyE illai, irundhAl mullai kodi pOl mella vaLaiyum' (if there was a waist, it bent like a creeper) to just 'idaiyE illai'.
I expected Mahati Kannan - Dr. PS's neice (?) to be absolutely fantastic - she was very light on her feet, but definitely not a chip off the old block yet! Hopefully will come with time.
Some of the dance dramas looked like dance sandhais: too many people on the stage. Many of them need to work on their basic stance...
Ravi
Some comments (and they represent only my thoughts and not the views of the management!):
Prof. Chandrasekhar continues to amaze me at his age: beautiful araimandi, lovely, crisp nritta and subtle but effective emoting for the audience and communing with the divine!
It is SAD that except for some notable exceptions, when many women dancers aquire the maturity to evolve from a mere performing artist to a practitioner of the nAtya yOga, their bodies are no longer aesthetic instruments. They go from 'idaiyE illai, irundhAl mullai kodi pOl mella vaLaiyum' (if there was a waist, it bent like a creeper) to just 'idaiyE illai'.
I expected Mahati Kannan - Dr. PS's neice (?) to be absolutely fantastic - she was very light on her feet, but definitely not a chip off the old block yet! Hopefully will come with time.
Some of the dance dramas looked like dance sandhais: too many people on the stage. Many of them need to work on their basic stance...
Ravi