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Anita says.....

Oct 2021

The Goddess does not enter from the outside
SHE emerges from deep within
SHE is not held back by what has happened in the past
SHE is conceived in consciousness
- Sri Aurobindo

And so... we are on our way back
Like a winding spiral
To a new place that feels like
A beginning
All over again

Travel... Meeting a friend... a cautious embrace… muted laughter…
The energy is in the air...
The streets are clogged with revenge shopping.
Stores are welcoming clients after a crippling hiatus
Weddings, anniversaries, birthdays - are all being planned with greater vigour.
It's the festival season... but any excuse is enough to get out and breathe!

So...
What about us dancers???

The fortunate ones have already performed to live audiences, savouring the applause and the perspiration - free from the tiny gleam of that digital device and the claustrophobic mask..

Read on...

Moving requiem to Kapila Vatsyayan - the only guru of her kind

West Zone Cultural Centre presents online Malhar Festival

Evolution of Kathak in post independent India

It's been a year
- Dr. Arshiya Sethi

How Gita Govinda colored my life

QUOTE
"Appreciating art that other people have created connects us with one another, and I think that one of the fundamental joys and purposes for which we’re here, is to be connected with one another."
- Sarah Kaufman
(‘Celebrating grace, dance, and movement in the political now: A conversation with Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Sarah Kaufman’ by Emmy M. Cho, Harvard Political Review, Aug 11, 2021)

BIRTHDAY WISHES
Sudha Chandrasekhar (BN): Oct 4
Madhavi Mudgal (Odissi): Oct 4
Roja Kannan (BN): Oct 6
Raja Reddy (Kuchipudi): Oct 6
Kiran Subramanyam (BN): Oct 8
Chitra Visweswaran (BN): Oct 12
Rathna Kumar (Kuchipudi): Oct 27
Hema Rajagopalan (BN): Oct 28

Hoysaleshwara temple, Halebid, Karnataka
Photo: Lalitha Venkat

East West Players, EnActe Arts and Hypokrit Productions present
The Sitayana
(Or How To Make An Exit)
Sept 20 - Oct 17, 2021

Habitat World presents
Documentary films
From Mohan Khokar Dance Collection
Oct 6 - 27, 2021

Sridevi Nrithya Kendra presents
National Dance Discourse on Trends Today
Oct 24, 2021 at 6.30pm

Art Vision presents
Jayadeva’s Geeta Govinda:
three ashtapadi illustrated in Art, Dance and Literature
Oct 28 - 30, 2021

Kuchipudi Parampara Foundation presents
Natya Parampara Utsav 2021
Oct 30 & 31, 2021 6pm

Mandala Arts & Culture, The Dance Centre
Present Sannidhanam
By Rama Vaidyanathan & ensemble
November 8 - 15, 2021

Dhirana Academy of Classical Indian Dance presents
Baala, the tale of Kanha
Bentonville West High School, 4pm
November 20, 2021 Centerton, AR

Natyarambha presents
Tamrapatra
Yearlong series of learning rare Annamacharya Sankeerthanas
July 2021 to June 2022

Through Fish Eyes
- a renewed vision of new possibilities through the lens of Bharatanatyam
- Aditya Venkataraman

Navaratri celebrations at Kochi
- Lata Surendra

'Radha' by Himanshu Srivastava
- Jaya Rao Dayal

The journey of the dragonfly
- Padma Jayaraj

Vande Mataram 2021
- Aaricia Ponnet

Her love, as a sport
- Pujita Krishna

Navarasa Sadhana phase 4 - An emotive tapestry
- Bindu Rajendren

An imaginary interview with Guru Gopinath - Part 2
- Tapati Chowdurie

Dancer with a Midas touch
- Jyothi Raghuram

K Subash Chandran
- Vijay Shanker

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