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Current and former students of St. Teresa’s College in Kochi to stage a musical inspired by the Russian ballet Swan Lake

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] Come January 11, the Platinum Jubilee Auditorium of St. Teresa’s College (STC) will be the stage for musical Hamsadhwani – Words in Motion, an adaptation of the 19th century Russian ballet Swan Lake. Presented in a fusion of classical Indian dance forms such as Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, Kathakali alongside contemporary, freestyle and folk dance, it […]

RLV Ramakrishnan says he wants to perform Mohiniyattam at every stage in Kerala to protest against racist slurs

March 23, 2024March 27, 2024cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

Visakhapatnam girl makes it to international one-on-one breaking competition

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

G. Venu’s new book is a ready reckoner on mudras

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

Jyotsna Jagannathan’s expressive interpretations added finesse to her portrayal

March 3, 2023March 3, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

How Mallika Sarabhai straddles the two worlds of art and art management with ease

March 2, 2023March 4, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

Kanak Rele was a doyenne of Mohiniyattam who redefined and reinterpreted the traditional dance form of Kerala

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

Meet Visakhapatnam’s breakdancers who are nurturing the Olympic dream

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]

Coimbatore-based Ektha presents its first standalone dance show

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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. […]

Radhika Vairavelavan’s inspiring imagery

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

[ad_1] 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 […]