If ever I was able to watch only one Bharatanatyam performer from the hundreds that exist, I would choose Malavika Sarukkai without batting an eyelid. Of course, after making that choice, the eyelid would bat crazily questioning why such a straitened situation existed at all. Similarly, soon after I began to breathe in the magic she created through primarily her own dancing in Vamatara: To the Light, niggling doubts began to assail me as to how to read the work and the professed content in our present-day scenario.
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Congratulations to Vikram Iyengar for bringing out the inner turmoil of classical dancers and exposing the fact that we classical dancers haven't still found a way to answer these questions....is the classical dancer a citizen or not and is he or she supposed to answer these questions or not....
ReplyDeletei have a question though....do musicians get it easy....they never have to deal with their link with contemporary issues , or responsibilities towards contemporary issues....
so is it the art form or the artiste?
Once again a wonderful article....so many points which have been disturbing me over the years as a classical dancer have been spoken so clearly.