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 Ganesa Natyalaya presents Shivaarghya - Festival of male dancers At Ganesa Natyalaya, 11am-8pm March 17, 2024 New Delhi March 11, 2024 SHIVAARGHYA Festival of male dancers by Ganesa Natyalaya A #Swarna Saroja event Date: Sunday, 17th March 2024 Time: 11am to 8pm Venue: Ganesa Natyalaya, C-16, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi Entry: Open to all Ganesa Natyalaya, a prominent Bharatanatyam dance institution of Delhi celebrates the month of Mahasivaratri with a festival dedicated to male dancers titled 'Shivaarghya' on Sunday, 17th March 2024 from 11am to 8pm at Ganesa Natyalaya, C-16, Qutub Institutional Area. This year, 25 dancers from across the country will be participating in the festival showcasing seven Indian traditional dance forms curated by Rama Vaidyanathan. Brainchild of late Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan, this initiative was started in 2019 to give opportunities to young male dancers who are talented and have taken dance as their full time profession. Shivaarghya is a SwarnaSaroja event, which is a year-long celebration to mark the golden jubilee of Ganesa Natyalaya, the institution started by Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan in 1974. For the past fifty years, the institution has been relentlessly engaged in the propagation of Bharatanatyam specially in North India. Speaking on the festival, Rama Vaidyanathan, President, Ganesa Natalaya, says, "Shivaarghya pays tribute to the first dancer Lord Nataraja who symbolises the genderless dancing body. This year we have invited artistes from Kerala, Varanasi, Lucknow, Kolkata and Bengaluru."  Washim Raja  Pritam Das  Himanshu Srivastava  Vishal Krishna  Shobhith Ramesh The festival promises to showcase excellence, perseverance and the versatility of the male classical dancer. The dancers participating in the festival are: Kathak: Vishal Krishna Mishra from Varanasi along with Bhava Gangani & Ashish, Akshar Tekchandani and Gaurav Bhatti from Delhi Bharatanatyam: Anand CS from Kerala, Amrit Sinha and Gyanendra Dutt Bajpai and Syed Samsur Rehman from Lucknow, Nilay Mandal, Santanu Roy, Nilava Sen and Pankoj Singha Roy from Kolkata; Dr S Vasudevan, Himanshu Srivastava, Vinay Tiwari and Pritam Das from Delhi along with Shobit Ramesh from Bengaluru, and Varun Khanna from Chandigarh Odissi: Krishnendu Saha from Kolkata Kuchipudi: Washim Raja from Delhi Kathakali: Sahil Suresh from Delhi Pung Cholam: Shyam Singh from Delhi Chhau: Shubham Acharya from Delhi Shivaarghya will be held at the Ganesa Natyalaya premises at Qutab Institutional area. The festival begins with a very revealing lecture titled "Nataraja and the Cosmos" by scholar Dr VR Devika from Chennai, followed by a series of dance performances by talented male dancers from across India. About Ganesa Natyalaya: One of the premier Bharatanatyam institutions in Delhi which has trained over 1500 students has nearly a hundred taking up Bharatanatyam as a career and a full-time profession, some going on to become acclaimed Bharatanatyam exponents both in India and abroad. Nearly 30 of them have set up their own dance institutions across the globe (half of them being abroad) propagating this art form and remaining affiliated to Natyalaya. Till date 312 students of Ganesa Natyalaya have done their Arangetram. This year, the Golden Jubilee is special and almost all the schools are joining in to celebrate the SWARNA SAROJA both at their school level as well as along with the Natyalaya functions. Info: Ph: (011) - 26862995 / 26567397 e-mail: ganesa.natyalaya@gmail.com |
