[ad_1] Entering the art gallery holding my smartphone upright, finding the perfect angle to observe the pieces through my camera is not how I expected to look at art. As I inched slowly towards an exhibit titled Pool Party or Aquanouba in French, a piece of mysterious music began to play from my phone, followed […]
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[ad_1] With a cheery vanakam, musician Nadaka settles down in the lobby of Hotel Residency in Thiruvananthapuram to talk about his music and the geet-taar, a 24-string acoustic instrument that he created. In Thiruvananthapuram, for a concert, Geet-Taar & Taal, with Illyas Khan on the sarangi and Chandrashekhar Ravindra Gandhi on the tabla, the French-Canadian musician who lives in Pondicherry, says […]
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[ad_1] Director Bodhisatta Sarkar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ekalavya Performing Arts (EPA), a theatre group in Bengaluru, presents Kalakriti 2023 — a collage of mimes and drama directed and designed by theatre actor and director Bodhisatta Sarkar. The two-part festival is called Mute and Unmute. “Some parts are mime and others theatre,” explains the director. The […]
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