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Jyotsna Vaidee chose a rare Tevaram to depict Shiva’s form and his attributes. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Beginning with a pushpanjali, Jyotsna Vaidee moved on to Subbaraya Sastri’s ‘Janani Ninnuvina’ for her performance at Krishna Gana Sabha. This composition extolling the goddess as a creator, was interpreted by the dancer by bringing into it…
A still from ‘Nesippaya’ and director Vishnu Varadhan | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement and Thamodharan B After making a stellar debut in Bollywood with Shershaah (2021), filmmaker Vishnu Varadhan is back on his home turf. With his last Tamil outing Yatchan coming out in 2015, his upcoming film Nesippaya will mark his return to Tamil cinema…
Aditi Mangaldas in her award-winning work ‘Mehek’, which she co-created with Akash Odedra | Photo Credit: John Valente The honesty that Aditi Mangaldas brings to her works is very much a part of her persona too. She does not hesitate even for a moment to talk about dealing with an ageing body. “The process of…
Stills from the production | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Bengaluru-based dance institute, Vishwakiran Dance Company will present Exordium. “It is a modern Indian dance theatre production aimed at discussing contemporary social and political human structures through movement,” explains Vishwakiran Nambi, the founder of the dance school. Vishwakiran is a trained Bharatanatyam, Kalari and contemporary dancer. The…
Sindbad the Sailor by Abanindranath Tagore | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The New York Times Spelling Bee does not recognise Biennale as a valid word. It sticks with Biennial, as in the Whitney Biennial, though the Venice Biennale has made that word part of global art vocabulary. So we have the Gwangju Biennale, the Biennale…
No riding boots were to be found at Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi Race Course in the middle of November. On a Saturday afternoon, braving traffic, an unseasonal temperature spike and the risk of whiplash, well-heeled visitors to Art Mumbai walked into a veritable garden of curiosities at the race track. The question was, which to stop at…
(Left) Rabina Mondal’s untitled work, (right) A self portrait by Tito Stanley SJ | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The gallery at Alliance Francaise of Madras is practically unrecognisable today; the white cube has been transformed with deep red and black walls and a faux flooring to mimic art collector and entrepreneur Jaiveer Johal’s home. It…
