<p>The Padmalaya Dance Foundation recently organised ‘Youth in Dance’, a classical dance festival and a workshop on classical dances at Kannada Bhavan, JC Road.<br /><br /></p>.<p> The event started with the section ‘Talking Shop’, wherein ‘Yoga in Dance’ was explained by Rahi Santhanam, Suparna Venkatesh and ‘Articulate’ Nagaraj. It saw the participation of visually-impaired students of the Articulate Foundation. Sharing her perspective about the event, Padma Murali, who established the foundation, said that the idea behind organising the programme was to give youngsters a chance to explore their talents. “We have over 1,000 students and many of them are now renowned teachers,” said Padma. <br /><br />The next section saw dancers presenting bhartanatyam, mohiniyattam and kuchipudi recitals. <br /><br />The festival was put together under a special theme. <br /><br /> Supriya and Varsha, trained by Radha Sridhar, performed a bharatanatyam recital. “We have been dancing for the last 13 years. We ventured into the dance form after our school encouraged us and now it has turned into something we love,” explained Supriya. <br /><br /> Gururaj, a kuchipudi dancer, performed three pieces. The first one was a piece tracing the life of Lord Rama from his birth to his return to Ayodhya with Sita. “The younger generation will not want to sit through the whole story. <br /><br />It has been shortened so that the young can understand and stay in tune with the classical story,” said Gururaj. He also performed a traditional classical kuchipudi dance where the dancer performed on a brass plate. He has been training in this dance form for the last 10 years. <br /><br />There were also performances by dancers like Abhayalakshmi and Rekha Raju and group performance by Padmalaya Ensemble. “I am trained to in both bhartanatayam and mohiniyattam. <br /><br />I have been dancing for the last 20 years,” said Rekha. <br /></p>
<p>The Padmalaya Dance Foundation recently organised ‘Youth in Dance’, a classical dance festival and a workshop on classical dances at Kannada Bhavan, JC Road.<br /><br /></p>.<p> The event started with the section ‘Talking Shop’, wherein ‘Yoga in Dance’ was explained by Rahi Santhanam, Suparna Venkatesh and ‘Articulate’ Nagaraj. It saw the participation of visually-impaired students of the Articulate Foundation. Sharing her perspective about the event, Padma Murali, who established the foundation, said that the idea behind organising the programme was to give youngsters a chance to explore their talents. “We have over 1,000 students and many of them are now renowned teachers,” said Padma. <br /><br />The next section saw dancers presenting bhartanatyam, mohiniyattam and kuchipudi recitals. <br /><br />The festival was put together under a special theme. <br /><br /> Supriya and Varsha, trained by Radha Sridhar, performed a bharatanatyam recital. “We have been dancing for the last 13 years. We ventured into the dance form after our school encouraged us and now it has turned into something we love,” explained Supriya. <br /><br /> Gururaj, a kuchipudi dancer, performed three pieces. The first one was a piece tracing the life of Lord Rama from his birth to his return to Ayodhya with Sita. “The younger generation will not want to sit through the whole story. <br /><br />It has been shortened so that the young can understand and stay in tune with the classical story,” said Gururaj. He also performed a traditional classical kuchipudi dance where the dancer performed on a brass plate. He has been training in this dance form for the last 10 years. <br /><br />There were also performances by dancers like Abhayalakshmi and Rekha Raju and group performance by Padmalaya Ensemble. “I am trained to in both bhartanatayam and mohiniyattam. <br /><br />I have been dancing for the last 20 years,” said Rekha. <br /></p>
