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Padmini Chettur’s ‘Stilling’ staged as part of ‘Holding Space’ at Alipore Museum Since 2018, the Pickle Factory Dance Foundation has been a ‘holding space’ for the “practice, discourse and presentation of dance and movement work” within unusual spaces in Kolkata. In their just-concluded fifth season, they invited audiences to join them in ‘holding space’ for…
Priya S Nair chose the poem Duravastha | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Most Mohiniyattam performers in their effort to present something new, do not seem to be paying much attention to traditional pieces. Hence, ’Kavya nritarchana’, based on three prominent works of legendary Malayalam poet Kumaranasan, made for a delightful watch. Conceptualised by guru Kalamandalam…
Sikkil Gurucharan, Carnatic vocalist Sikkil Gurucharan. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Several decades ago, as a young boy, when I was asked to sing a kriti for Lakshmi pooja, I sheepishly declared that a school prayer was all I knew, only to be reminded by my teacher that the famous geetham ‘Varaveena’ is on Mahalakshmi….
