Presented at Chennai's Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan auditorium, Mandala was a truly interactive music/dance artistic journey between two classical artistes - dancer Amrita Lahiri and musician Chandana Bala Kalyan. Mandala, the symbolism representing sacred space (in Hinduism and Buddhism) with concentric circles converging in one center, becomes a metaphor for one's search for the sacred, traversing through several journeys in search of that center, which one finally realizes, is within. India's classical music and dance have always been regarded as a search for that oneness through works, in this production representing different states of being - sringar (love), viraha (separation), maya (illusion) and aikya (dissolution), the final state of getting merged into that, which one has been seeking....
TO DUST WE RETURN
Yet another non-Margam performance conceived and presented by Anuradha Venkataraman, harnesses the Bharatanatyam technique in a stark dance theatre production - expressing deep seated anguish at how, what one mistakenly deems as Progress, has not only fatally damaged the environment leaving Planet Earth gasping for breath, but has also contributed to creating an unbridgeable chasm between the privileged few as against the largely neglected sections of society....
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