We, with our origins from South Asia, always try our best to instil in our children, the grand culture & tradition of Hindu religion and philosophy. What better way that could have been depicted than KSHETRAM, a Bharatnatyam program in the form of a Ballet, conceived and presented in...
“Arched brows, beautiful red lips sporting a broad smile with dreadlocks of hair and a perfect body shining like a jewel, standing up on his toe with one foot lifted”, in describing Lord Shiva in a composition of ”Kunittha Puruvamum” Veteran Guru and Teacher Padma Bhushan CV Chandrasekhar brought Bharathanatyam...
Here is an Excerpt of an Interview with Prof CV Chandrasekhar which he gave, before his performance this evening, on the way to receiving his Padma Bhushan Award in India: Q: You have performed Bharathanatyam to Hindustani music and even Gujarati poetry and reached a wider audience. Can we see something...
Indian Dance played to a full house at the Seymour Theatre on 18 November. It was a program of classical Indian dances with a few surprises, like the chanting of the names of the 24 single hand gestures in Sanskrit from the Natyasastra text the Balinese mask dance, depicting characters from the Ramayana, and a Katha told in...
-Multi Cultural Awards for Excellence 2010 By Pathmapriya Melbourne based Veena exponents, Shri Ramnath Iyer and Shri Gopinath Iyer, popularly known as the Iyer Brothers were presented with a Service Delivery to Multicultural Victoria Award in the category of Arts at the annual ceremony organised by the Victorian Multi Cultural Commission held on 21...
This is the third exhausting day of the festival but I now feel alive after listening to TM Krishna who struck a Master’s stroke with a concert of unusual proportion and arrangement. Getting straight into it with a solid Shankarabharanam in ‘Akshayalinga‘. A soulful Karaharapriya in Raama Ni Samaanam Yevaru in Adhi thalam...
The second day proved to be Embar Kannan Day. The morning brought the artists together with the Thyagaraja Aradhanai when all international and the local artists came together with more people on the stage than off. This was followed by several local singers commanding their stake on the stage for an hour or two....
Unexpected fine weather welcomed the array of international musicians here in Sydney today. The first day of the Festival commenced with cheer. The C3 Church Auditorium in Silverwater great acoustic surroundings added to the experience. The Festival commenced with a talk given by Sudha Raghunathan who spoke about her esteemed guru ML Vasanthakumari and...
LISTEN TO MANJIRI HERE - Please double click to listen and continue reading.. Seen above performing at the Royal Albert Hall in Proms 2009, interviewing Manjiri Asanare-Kelkar a Hindustani vocalist was easy from the word go. Unpretentious and modern, Manjiri is very much a persona of the upcoming musician in India today. She shall...
Lets start at the very beginning! Yaman. There is enough and more been said about this Raga however I feel drawn to this sequence of notes time and again and what a better start to the New Year but to enfold myself into the comfort of its familiarity. Yaman seen through the mind of...
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