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Athriya Krishna Balaji impressed with her realistic portrayals. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Athriya Krishnan Balaji, disciple of Vinitha Subramanian, presented her solo recital, incorporating tales from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, at the Margazhi music and Dance Margazhi Festival organised under the auspices of Kartik Fine Arts. Athriya began her recital with a pushpanjali…
Divya Hoskere performing at The Music Academy’s 2025 dance festival | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani Divya Hoskere is a young Bharatanatyam dancer and academician. A disciple of P. Praveen Kumar, she is a PhD scholar at the School of Humanities at NIAS. Her broad area of research includes the study of the Natyashastra, Indian aesthetics…
Vyshnavie Sainath Prabhu | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Dr Vyshnavie Sainath Prabhu, an internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer, TedX speaker and a scholarship holder from Goldman Sachs (IIM Bangalore) will perform at Karunashryaya this weekend. The dance, titled Manas Strotah – myriad emotions through dance, is about life textured by the events that shape it, says…
Meera Sreenarayanan performing at The Music Academy | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani The understanding between a singer and a dancer, where both respond and resonate to each other’s manodharma, results in a performance high on aesthetics. Meera Sreenarayanan’s recital at The Music Academy’s dance festival was one such. From the first piece, the viruttam addressed…
Manasa Sriram. | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan Manasa Sriram, a disciple of Mahalakshmi Ashwin, began her recital at the Pongal Dance Festival 2025 with the invocatory hymn from the Thirumanthiram, ‘Ainthu karathanai’, in praise of Ganesha. She then moved to a Ganesha Alarippu set to Tisra Nadai Adi tala, showcasing the essence of Bharatanatyam’s rhythmic…
Watch: How a Bharatanatyam dancer gets ready for a recital We see dancers on stage and get enamoured by their costume, make-up and jewellery. Getting ready for a performance calls for lot of patience and practice. So, we decided to see how they go about this routine. We meet young and immensely talented Meera Sreenarayanan…
Kamala Bhat, an exponent of the Pandanallur bani | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In the late 1970s, the dance scene in Mangaluru was dominated by male gurus, with Jayalakshmi Alva being one of the few exceptions. That was when Kamala Bhat founded Natyalaya in 1978 in Urva. She wanted to nurture local talent . An…
Mavin Khoo | Photo Credit: Iyyappan The relentless hustle and clamour that is Margazhi in Chennai, for artistes and audience alike, is equally potent with spaces or moments of stillness and quiet immersion. It could be the reassuring first landing on that jeeva swara of a raga in a kutcheri, an unanticipated choreographic improvisation in…
Shobhit Ramesh’s sense of timing and confidence came through in his performance. | Photo Credit: SRINATH M The initial reaction when you see Kalavaahini Junior Scholarship awardee, Shobhit Ramesh issurprise. Though Shobhit is young, he has graceful, clean lines, a keen sense of timing, good finishes, and a confident stage presence. That Malavika Sarukkai chose…
Anwesha Das presented a traditional margam themed on the Lord of Chidambaram. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Anwesha Das, a disciple of Urmila Satyanarayanan, presented a traditional margam for her performance for Kartik Fine Arts. The alarippu in Sankirna Chaapu featured elements representative of his iconic image — the Damaru, the Ganga flowing from his…
