Dancer and academic RLV Ramakrishnan wants to perform Mohiniyattam at every stage in Kerala. “That is how I plan to protest against the racist and casteist slurs made against me,” says Ramakrishnan in an interview with The Hindu. Reacting to the unseemly remarks made by a veteran Mohiniyattam dancer and teacher, the 46-year-old dancer says […]
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B-girl Shreya from Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement When B-girl Shreya headspins, backflips and sways in swag, a circle of dancers cheer her along as they witness an incredible energy unfold in the room throbbing to the beats of hip-hop music. The 21-year-old from Visakhapatnam has been steadily making her way to the top in […]
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Koodiyattam exponent G. Venu. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT G. Venu’s latest book, Mudra, is a manifestation of his passion that he had nurtured as a student of Kathakali under the doyen Guru Gopinath. The 706-page book is divided into 24 chapters and contains 1341 notations of hasta mudras in Koodiyattam, Kathakali and Mohiniyattam was […]
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Jyotsana Jagannathan’s Bharatanatyam performance at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha’s Pongal festival, held in January 2023. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Bharatanatyam dancer Jyotsna Jagannathan is presenting a padavarnam, ‘Sarasijakshudu’ (Kalyani, Rupaka, Sivanandam of the Thanjavur Quartet), in which the composer praises the ‘lotus-eyed’ Krishna. She walks to a spot on stage, at Sri Krishna Gana […]
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In December 2022, dancer Mallika Sarabhai was appointed Chancellor of Kerala Kalamandalam, a deemed university. With her background as a performing artiste, the Padma Bhushan awardee brings to the institute her four-decade experience of successfully running the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad, besides a Ph.D in organisational behaviour and an MBA from the Indian […]
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Kanak Rele | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When I first met Dr. Kanak Rele four decades ago in Thiruvananthapuram, she was vociferously reacting to the criticism raised by several Kerala-based dancers during a symposium. She was assertive then and afterwards. Kanak Rele, who passed away on February 22, spent her whole life fighting for a […]
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Participants in a breaking class at Destiny Breakers Dance School in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: KR Deepak In a narrow lane winding into a residential colony in Visakhapatnam, a room throbs to the beats of hip-hop music. Here, a small team of dancers in the age group of eight to 20 flip, freeze and sway […]
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The Ektha team | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “It’s a platform that brings together anyone interested in dance,” says Saritha Lakshmi, the artistic director of Ektha, a space where a bunch of young dancers in Coimbatore meet to simply dance. “We collaborate and choreograph together and the outcome is organic. We record the video. The […]
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Radhika Vairavelavan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Challenging the Natya Shastra and its Rasa Theory as the first known work on theatre arts, is Sattanar’s Koottanool, an ancient Tamil text on dance, music and drama, dating to the third Sangam period (maybe 3BCE-3CE). The author Sattannar is believed to have been a contemporary of Tolkappier, […]
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From ‘Mandala’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As the light hits the stage, it’s covered in hues of aquamarine. The dancers, dressed in white and red, enter, each one embodying aspects of the Tibetan sand mandala. In the wings, stands Lata Pada looking contemplative. She is presenting ‘Mandala’ after a three-year hiatus. And this time, […]
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