It was called Sangam - saga in Devotion with three dance traditions Bharatanatyam, Odissi and Kuchipudi sharing the Stein auditorium stage at the Habitat - the concerned dancers, in the order of traditions mentioned above, being Ritwika Ghosh who apart from four years at Rabindra Bharti University has trained under Jayanti Subramaniam, Seetharama Sharma and Kalanidhi Narayanan; Rina Jana trained under Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra and 'Sanjunani' (Sanjukta Panigrahi); and Bobby Chakraborty who studied under Madhuri Mazumdar and off and on has trained under Vanashree Rao. One wonders if such evenings, prompted largely by the dancer verses opportunities-for-performance being so stilted, plus a feel that something different from the usual can attract more attention, are worth the effort involved. Looking at the pitifully slender audience seated in the auditorium, though a few more joined in later after the inauguration by the chief guest Vanashree Rao, the long winding introductions for each dancer had no place and should have been avoided. Ultimately what is shown on the stage as performance, is what audience mind carries home.
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