Rustic flavour in urban space
A shell-shocked audience, watching the flagrantly rustic performance of the Vedantam Radhesyam Kuchipudi troupe, wondering how it merited performance space at the Academy Festival, would have reacted...
View ArticleA strong tandav
Vishal Krishna, grandson of Sitara Devi, showed his lineage in impeccable fashion, writes Leela Venkataraman
View ArticleWith an air of bhakti
The setting at the renovated Sringeri Pravachana Mandiram and a good crowd of rasikas created an appropriate ambience for Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar’s flute recital. An extensive alapana in Sankarabha...
View ArticleMany moods of the margam
The senior disciple of Chitra Visweswaran, Lakshmi Ramaswamy chose to present a margam for Brahma Gana Sabha. The day she performed was navami and she began her presentation with the Nava Durga Stotr...
View ArticleExploring the subtleties
Looks like U.S.-based Bharatanatyam dancers are fully equipped to meet the challenges of Chennai’s traditional artistic ethos. The performance of Kavitha Thirumalai of San Francisco was ample proof ...
View ArticleNot a perfect weave
Flute maestro N. Ramani’s grandson Athul Kumar has embarked on an ambitious project — to present fusion music accompanied by dance. The presentation focused on Ashta Nayikas. With his electric flut...
View ArticleA maestro for a best friend
S. Balachander’s birth anniversary was January 18. Rochelle Shah recalls the warm and multi-faceted veena exponent, who charmed people with his larger-than-life personality
View ArticleThe music saint on stage
T.V. Varadharajen’s ‘Sri Thyagarajar’ is packed with moving vignettes from the composer’s life
View ArticleThe sum of a song
An imaginary conversation between a Maths wizard and a musical genius.
View ArticleThe sound of celebration
With nagaswaram festivals at Sabhas seeing greater audiences, Lalithaa Krishnan talks about the challenges of bringing the instrument to the concert platform
View ArticleMoves and music
Meenakshi Chitharanjan's performance was about team work, writes Rupa Srikanth.
View ArticleWaiting for that one song
With so many talent hunts on television, it keeps giving us new heroes and heroines; boys and girls who seem destined to rule the roost in the coming years. Many of them though fade away from the...
View ArticleThe epiphany of life
Presented with the Natya Kala Acharya Award by the Music Academy Madras, Alarmel Valli reveals what dance means to her.
View ArticleWhen personal becomes universal
It’s not devotion but the resonance of Krishna’s persona that guided Aditi Mangaldas to choreograph “Hari Ho…Gati Meri” for her senior student Gauri Diwakar.
View ArticleFarhan Akhtar, wife Adhuna announce separation
Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar and his hairstylist wife Adhuna have “mutually and amicably” decided to end their 15-year-long marriage. The couple, who raise two children Shakya and Akira, ...
View ArticleSalute on stage
Women occupied prime space at the recent theatre festival organised by the Punjabi Academy in New Delhi.
View ArticleGuru of a lost tradition
Kalamandalam Piyal Bhattacharya on having a solid grounding of Natya Shastra.
View ArticleAnubhav (1971)
How do you experience change? Who makes the tough choice or finds a convenient way out? For good or worse? Who is to judge right and wrong in a marriage, the bliss and the anguish, to be decided by t...
View ArticlePoetics of art
For artist Sudarshan Shetty it is paramount to negotiate diverse spaces.
View ArticleLiving up to the name
The 17th Swami Haridas-Tansen festival was warmly appreciated by connoisseurs.
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