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Jan 2025
SANCHARI.. More on the arts

Dancers enchant at 3rd Hyderabad Odissi Utsav
- Anna Rao Gangavalli
The 3rd edition of the Hyderabad Odissi Utsav showcased the city's vibrant cultural talent, featuring nearly 70 dancers from Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Bharatanatyam dancer performs while nine months pregnant, celebrates maternal bond in 'Matrutvam'
- Abiya Babu
Bharatanatyam dancer Yagnika Iyengar delivered a show-stopping performance despite being at full-term pregnancy.

Polished performance: Dancing Bharatanatyam to Polish folk tunes
- Tanisha Saxena
She inherited the dual legacies of her grandmother, and her Indian upbringing which was steeped in classical traditions.

A season with a reason
- Reshma O. Pathare
An exciting line-up of artistes and presentations at multiple venues across the city strung together with a sense of camaraderie await rasikas at the month-long NCPA Mumbai Dance Season.

Therukoothu icon Kalavai Kumarasamy's family asks Tamil Nadu govt to build memorial
- Rajalakshmi Sampath
Kumarasamy's ancestral home, where the writer had once crafted his manuscripts, now holds the stories of his artistic journey.

Flight of imagination
- V.V.Ramani
'Kattam Katti' captured the spirit of the kite festival.

Madras HC quashes order to restrain conferring of MS Subbulakshmi Award to TM Krishna
- R Sivakumar
The single judge, on Nov 19, 2024, barred them from conferring the mirror award in the late singer's name, holding that the institution of the award in her name went against her will.

TM Krishna shall not be recognized as recipient of Sangita Kalanidhi MS Subbulakshmi Award: Supreme Court's Interim Order
- Debby Jain
The Court's interim order also restrained TM Krishna from projecting himself as the recipient of the Sangita Kalanidhi award in the name of MS Subbulakshmi.

Dance as the protagonist
- Srinivasa Ramanujam
Sharada Ramanathan's award winning film Sringaram has been restored and will be re-released this Margazhi season.

Attakkalari's 'World Dance' in Bengaluru is a fusion of global and local stories
- Praveen Sudevan
Indian and global artists come together in Attakkalari's World Dance, blending traditions, myths, and modern themes.

The making of Pune as Maharashtra's dance capital
- Dhaval S Kulkarni
The 'Pune Special' edition of art historian Ashish Mohan Khokar's 'Attendance: The Dance Annual of India 2024' brings long-due credit to the city's contribution to this art form.

Margazhi fervour beyond boundaries
- Ankita Nair
True to its essence of diversity and inclusivity, The Kutty Kutchery Festival adds the flavour of Kuttiyattam and Naatupura Kalaigal to this season of Margazhi.

An academic session at The Music Academy that highlighted phrases common in ragas
- S. Adithyanarayanan
R. Hemalatha dealt with non-allied ragas and shared phraseologies while A. Ramanathan explained the different types of Oppari.

Of form and the formless
- Rupa Srikanth
Mahati Kannan and Ramya Venkataraman explored the concept of Shakti through well researched pieces.

Evening performances @ SNA Festival
- Tapati Chowdhurie
The International Festival of Indian Dance from the 16 - 21 of October will go down in history as a great event.

International festival on Indian dance
- Tapati Chowdhurie
Armed with a strong team from SNA and her brilliant Chief of Staff Raju Das-Secretary SNA, Sandhya Purecha embarked on her mission to hold the International Festival on Indian Dance and the path-breaking Photography Exhibition, “Heritage Gems of Indian Dance”.

Dance performance addresses fraught politics around South Asian heritage
- Vivek Gupta
Mandeep Raikhy's touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present.

Strokes and moves
-V.V. Ramani
Dancers Nilava Sen and Prachi Saathi's out-of-the-box choreography.

Bharatanatyam dancer Rajashree Warrier returns to Coimbatore after 15 years
- Nikhil Jayakrishnan
She returns with a recital and abhinaya workshops at Dhanwantari Temple Auditorium.

The face as a canvas
- V.V. Ramani
Meenakshi Chitharanjan used words to create imageries in her abhinaya session.




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