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When the curtains go up on the first edition of the four-day international contemporary dance festival, Movement Festival of Kerala (MFOK), on November 27, at the Kerala Fine Arts Hall, it would be the fruition of a dream for dancers/choreographers Sreejith P, Paris Laxmi and Abhilash VS to create a space for contemporary dance in…
A look at some of the better Telugu films this year (not strictly going by their box-office fate) — from Courtand Iravai Mooduto Subham, Paradha, Kanya Kumari and Little Hearts— reveals a united effort to mirror the travails of the average mortal. These films explore the daily grind of regular people, their dreams (or the…
The festival opened with a concert by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. | Photo Credit: ANI If you ever dreamt of attending a classical music and dance festival that also doubles up as a showcase for handicrafts and culinary delights, then Virasat Festival, held recently in Dehradun, is the answer. One of the longest-running festivals in…
‘Vandharai vaazhaveikkum Chennai’, an oft used axiom referring to the city’s hospitality, holds absolute validity for most musicians performing at the third edition of The Hindu’sMade of Chennai Food and Music Festival. Although the city may have seemed daunting to them after having trooped to Chennai from small towns and villages, this epicentre of Tamil…
Spoorthi Rao, Vocal at Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Vidya Bharathi, in Mylapore on Tuesday…. Photo: SRINATH M/ THE HINDU | Photo Credit: SRINATH M Spoorthy Rao easily won the hearts of the audience with her rich and melodious voice that covered all the octaves up to the tara panchmam. Spoorthy commenced her concert for Sri Parthasarathy…
A dance performance from the show in Kolkata | Photo Credit: Adrija Samal Last month, the late Pakistani poet and author Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem titled ‘A lullaby for a Palestinian Child’ birthed a poignant Bharatanatyam performance in Delhi. Titled Lori, the movement piece was Bengaluru-based Aranyani Bhargav’s attempt at making sense of a brutal conflict,…
