Collaborators above all, need a generous sponsor for agreements to fructify and aside from the Malaysian authorities of Arts Against Aids and Sai Ananda Foundation Malaysia, one cannot but have admiration for bodies in India, like Kala Kalp Sanskrutik Sansthan led by Dr. Atasi Misra, whose generous invitation to host the Sutra / Tridhara collaboration, at Delhi with a show of Radha Radhe at the Kamani, has enabled the latest Delhi visit for the Sutra troupe...
But for the two-day festival at the Triveni auditorium, Delhi, curated and executed by Dr.Sahana Selvaganesh, a Bharatanatyam student of Roja Kannan, under the aegis of an NGO Nirvikalpa started by her and her friends, the Delhi audience would not have had the chance of being treated to a performance by the very senior, established, Kalakshetra trained Bharatanatyam dancer G. Narendra....
The evening at the Triveni auditorium was titled Anavarna (Exploring the layers) presenting dancer Anandita Narayanan, a disciple of Bharatanatyam Guru Geeta Chandran. Expecting another of the well trained students of this teacher, one was totally unprepared for the mature performance of one, who, as the saying goes, has arrived - namely has graduated from locating the dance within her, to the point when she is beginning to discover herself in the dance - the latter a long process which in many cases, never happens....
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