PriyaLasya - Web NewsLetter & Magazine - June 2018

Selected News Articles from May 2018 

Vijayawada: Kuchipudi dancers gets a makeover with Kalamkari - Deccan ChronicleMrinalini Sarabhai Honoured By Goodle Doodle50 South India artists perform classical dance on Malaviya GhatThe art form is evolving, say classical dancers

Madhuri Dixit: Surprised to see youngsters taking up classical dance forms

Selected News Articles from April 2018

 * Student depicts life of Jesus through Bharatanatyam - The Hindu

* Harbhajan journey from Bhangra to Bharatanatyam - News Today

* My dancing talent was underutilised in films: Hema Malini - The Hindu

* Remembering Kalamandalam Thankamani and Kelubabu - The Hindu

* Mohiniyattam: Dance of the Divine Enchantress - Pasadena Now

Mohiniattam Costumes - Plain Kasavu will always be my most Favourite - Dr Sunanda Nair

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In this archival video from 2014, Dancer Geeta Chandran with her Natya Vriksha Dance Company perform RAAS for the National Creative Arts Festival, at the Stein Auditorium at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

Celebrating Krishna’s beauty and his play with the gopis of Vrindavan, this piece is an original dance composition; conceived and created for performance by Dancer Geeta Chandran as a Senior Research Fellowship Awardee from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

Performed initially as a solo performance, Dancer Geeta Chandran re-designed this piece also for group choreography. Using images from famous Raas Nritya paintings and treatises such as Harivamsha and the Bhagwat Purana, Geeta’s choreography celebrates beauty and devotion in prismatic ways.

The libretto by Hitahari Vansh is set to Raagamalika and has been sung by Smt. Sudha Raghuraman.

Soundtrack Credits: Nattuvangam: Guru S.Shankar; Vocal: Smt. Sudha Raghuraman; Mridangam: Shri Lalgudi R. Sriganesh; Flute: Shri G.Raghuraman

Dancers of Natya Vriksha Dance Company: Sneha Chakradhar, Sharanya Chandran, Divya Saluja, Rashi Bijlani, Amrithasruthi Radhakrishnan, Radhika Kathal

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