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This year’s Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) was significant in showing people who came from outside the State — ‘the outsiders’ — what Panaji is, in its best parts. The multi-disciplinary festival, at 14 locations, across a 5-kilometre area, brought together 1,800 visual and performing artists and artisans from across India and some from abroad, to…
It was a celebration of the return of five forgotten women — Ahalya, Tara, Sita, Mandodari and Draupadi — who had disappeared from the Koodiyattam stage over the years. Koodiyattam is perhaps the only theatre tradition where female roles have always been performed only by females. The restriction on depicting panchakanyakas in theatrical performances sprang…
Rithu Bharatam — the 26th edition of Natyangam’s annual dance festival — uniquely drew a parallel between the characteristic colours of different seasons and the aesthetic appeal and subtle variations of different banis. As art is immeasurably deep and expansive, it must have been challenging for the artistes to explore within given boundaries — Kalidasa’s…
Ashish Kumar and (below) images from last year’s festival edition. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sri Sri Radha Madhava Classical Fine Arts Cultural Society (SRMFACS) presents the second edition of Shri Radha Ashtami fine Arts Cultural Festival. The festival is a homage to Radha,” says founder of SRMFACS, Ashish Kumar. “Radha is the central figure…
Odissi dancer Madhulitha Mohapatra, curated a two-day Naman festival recently in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Odissi, one of the classical dance forms, is marked by graceful postures, emotive facial expressions, bright costumes, and make-up. Pallavi, Ashtapadi, and Oriya poems, and Chaukha and Tribhanga stances form the basic movement through which Odissi dancers convey…
Shabana and Shafeekudeen at the two-day Aikyam festival. | Photo Credit: RAGU R Shafeekudeen and Shabana, sishyas of Natyacharyas V.P. and and Shanta Dhananjayan, performed on day two of the Aikyam festival, held recently. The dancers, coordinated in muted shades of green and mustard, were as pleasing as the Kalakshetra bani that they showcased. In…
A view of the attendees from last year’s edition of The City as a Museum. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The City as a Museum — an art gallery’s annual event in Kolkata that transforms streets into living museums for revisiting historical narratives — will this year bring alive, among other things, memories of a…
An image from ‘MLK: Now is the Time’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic 1963 speech ‘I Have a Dream’ and his work highlighting systemic inequalities is the theme of the 16-minute English short film MLK: Now is the Time by Fabian Limbert. Imagine moving that narrative forward by playing a…
At the inaugural Ügam festival | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For many, pottery is not just a craft; it is a form of meditation, a tactile escape from the frenetic pace of modern life. As hands shape clay and the wheel turns, there is a singular focus that can settle the mind and offer a…
Sathish Lal Andhekhar photographs ‘arribada’ or mass nesting process of olive ridley turtles on the shores of Odisha | Photo Credit: Indian Photo Festival 2024 The Indian Photo Festival (IPF) 2024, which will take place in Hyderabad from November 21 to January 5, will be its tenth edition. The annual fest will return, presenting workshops,…
