Artistic dance
Anita Ratnam is performing Neelam - drowning in bliss at 6.30 pm on January 6 at the 9th annual Sanskruti National Dance Festival, at ADA Ranga Mandira Auditorium, JC Road. It arrives in the City after enjoying much acclaim in the USA.
Anita Ratnam’s latest work, Neelam, feels like a work of fine artistic unity effected by symbolic evocations of colour, gestures, movements, lighting and music. A journey throught he androgynous dance of Nambi, the erotic cajoling of Aandal to Panchajanya, Krishna’s heart – rending surrender to Radha, and montages of the Ramayana – traverse a vast ground between the individual and the epic; between masculine valour, female sexuality, and androgyny; between the Always, Andal, Jayadeva and Muthuswami Dikshitar.
Bharatanatyam
The Indian Institute of World Culture is organising a Bharatanatyam performance by Harshita Bhat, disciple of Shubha Dhananjay on January 8 at 6 pm at the Institute premises at B P Wadia Road, Basavanagudi.
Harshitha started practising Bharatnatyam at the age of 9. Her Rangapravesham on May 20, 2007 was greatly appreciated. She is a recipient of National Scholarship from the Centre for Resources and Training (CCRT) New Delhi and had taken up their workshop at Hyderabad. She has also passed her junior and senior exams in first class.
She has participated in many national and religious festivals like Dasara at Mysore, Vachanamahotsava at Delhi & Davanagere, Chalukyotsava at Badami, National festivals at Udupi and Karkala, Kuvempu bhatama-hotsava at Mysore, Brahmotsava at ISKCON, Janapada Utsava at Janapada Loka, Sound and Light Production at Gadag as part of Lakkundi Utsava etc.
Sufi poetry
The conference of the birds”, a metaphorical tale of the journey of the human spirit in search of truth, by renowned Sufi poet Farid ud Din Attar, will be performed by the graduating class 12 students of Australia's Mount Barker Waldorf School. This is a labour of love by students, teachers and parents, under the artistic guidance of JoanneSarre of Inkpot Arts . Saving all their money this past year to pay for tickets, they are here to perform this play in music and movement in seven cities in India.
In Bangalore they will perform at Mallya Aditi International School's Amphitheatre, January 12 from 6.30 pm to 8 pm and at Ecumenical Centre Conference Hall on January 17 from 6 pm to 7.30 pm. Please call 9900 519532 for information.
There will also be a talk and workshop on Waldorf education by the staff of Mount Barker Waldorf School is scheduled for January 12 at JRC Hall, United Theological College, Millers Road from 9.30 am to 11 am. The workshop will explore the educational ideal of "educating towards freedom". Interested teachers and parents are welcome.
Yakshagana episode
The 25th episode of “Yakshakathana”, a discussion on Yakshagana with stalwarts of the dance-drama form, Yakshagana, will be telecast on Doordarshan Chandana on January 5 at 2 pm. There will be a repeat programme on January 6 at 8.30 pm. The 25th episode will have a discussion with Balipa Narayana Bhagavatha. Other episodes will have discussion with Yadaneer Keshavananda Swamiji, Kumble Sundar Rao, Prabhakar Joshi and Sreedhar Bhandary..
