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Sunday 25 June 2023
Obit/Tribute - Guru Valmiki Banerjee: A lifetime in dance - Ashish Mohan Khokar
Thursday 22 June 2023
Navarasa - A Virtual Dance Festival - Taalam: column by Leela Venkataraman
Continuing the off-beat Virtual Festival showing, was Bindu Ru Sindhu in the Odissi style, presented by Gunjan Dance Academy of Odisha's Cuttack, conceptualized by Meera Das who runs the institution. The literary base provided by the poetry of Kedar Mishra, using the water image, is spun round the idea that even the most expansive of entities has its start in the Bindu or infinitesimal dot.
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Wednesday 21 June 2023
Profile - T.A.Rajalakshmi Ammal: A fountain of hereditary repertoire- M.Venkatakrishnan
There were four of us who did arangetram under her and I was the only boy in that group.
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Friday 16 June 2023
Article - Kalakshetra administration failed the Founder's vision - VP Dhananjayan
This refers to the timely and explicitly introspected article by Anjana Anand in the Sruti Magazine ('Kalakshetra - Time for introspection,' Point of View column, June 2023 issue), which should be taken seriously by the institution and its administrators. Institutions like Kalakshetra are the pride of the nation, hence the Bharat Sarkar should give them special status and not to apply the rules and regulations applicable to government offices and organisations. This is where Rukmini Devi differed from the Government and rejected the offer to give the institution the status of 'Deemed to be University' in 1963/64.
Under the government appointed administrators, Kalakshetra lost its credibility as an integrated wholesome art institution envisaged by its founder Rukmini Devi and her immediate associates like Sankara Menon and others.
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Monday 12 June 2023
Book Review - Courting Hindustan - Radhika Rani
Rupa Publications, New Delhi (2023)
Price: INR 295
ISBN: 978-93-5702-103-6
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Friday 9 June 2023
The many threads of Odishi - Dancing on Air: Column by Kathakali Jana
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Thursday 1 June 2023
Anita says...June 2023
After all the wars are over,
The butterfly will still be beautiful- Ruskin Bond, author
And so here we are! At the half way mark of the year, heading towards the longest day of 2023 - June 21st - and wondering where the last months went!
May was full of pomp, ceremony and circumstance! A coronation, an inauguration, the end of two major cultural icons (singer Tina Turner and the TV show SUCCESSION), the return of Nrityagram to their beloved New York landmark JOYCE Theatre, several premieres by diaspora dancers, American summer festivals with classical dancers performing in parks and museums- it was a never ending spectacle!
A month away from home gave me a different perspective on dance, our daily endeavours and the increasing disenchantment among diaspora artistes with visiting artistes from India.
This month I choose to focus on some points that swirl around dance and the tone is reflective, sometimes somber and not always celebratory.
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