By Hamsa Venkat Throwing a bouquet of flowers presented by the organisers into a star struck audience, Shobana walked away from the stage with a jaunty gait. Typical of an incident witnessed at a filmfare awards function and not probably at a classical dance recital, this glamour and glitz to some extent characterized the...
The path of discovering what one needs to do to bring a mridangam in to Australia, had me knocking at the doors of the Customs Department for some answers. Decidedly, if something is wooden and has an animal skin on it, it is double trouble. All items brought into Australia if wooden require both...
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...
As part of Parramasala, the Australian festival of South Asian Arts, held between 4th – 8th November, in Parramatta, one of the most culturally diverse regions in the heart of western Sydney, masterclasses were organized by Western Sydney Dance Action (WSDA). Here, the veteran artistes who participated in the festival, shared their knowledge and...
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