Sunday 11 April 2021

MANDALA X / CREATION: A DANCE ORATORIO: Column by Janaki Patrik

INSPIRATION
MANDALA X / CREATION: A DANCE ORATORIO was inspired by "The Hymn of Creation", a 3,000-year-old Sanskrit hymn from the Rig Veda. One of the first known speculations on the origins of the universe - considered the oldest statement of philosophic doubt in world literature - "The Hymn of Creation" reverberates with eternal questions which have intrigued humankind.

In 1976, my father's friend Dr. Mary Blade gave me the book Hymns from the Rig-Veda, translated by Jean Le Mee, published by A.Knopf in 1975, with photographs by Ingbert Gruttner. This gift started me on a choreographic journey, culminating twenty years later in the production MANDALA X - CREATION - A Dance Oratorio, which premiered on the Vernal Equinox, 20 March 1997.


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  1. The process of your choreography appears as intriguing as it’s challenges. Is there any way I could view its records ?in order to understand what it must have looked like ? I would really like to associate a visual to the description above .
    Thank you 🙏🏼

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