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Sounds of Onam: Keeping the Chenda beat alive in Chennai (opens the original)
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As Onam approaches, the thunderous rhythms of Chenda Melam evoke the sounds of Kerala’s temple festivals. In Chennai’s Villivakkam, Sri Sastha Kshetra Vadya Sangam at Ayyappan Kovil, has been keeping the tradition alive and accessible through free Chenda classes that attract learners across generations. The institution was founded by Rajeev Kumar, whose association with the temple began in his childhood. His father, C.N. Sukumaran Guruswamy, founded the Villivakkam Ayyappan Temple. The idea for
Bala Devi Chandrashekar recreates the pilgrimage to Pandharpur in her thematic work (opens the original)
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Bharatanatyam exponent Bala Devi Chandrashekar’s thematic production, ‘Mauli: A Timeless Tradition’, presented recently at Kalakshetra, was more a spiritual pilgrimage through Maharashtra’s 800-year-old Varkari tradition than a conventional dance performance. Conceived as an ekaharya (solo) production in the bhanika style, it took the audience on a visual journey from Alandi and Dehu to Pandharpur. Rather than following a linear narrative, the production unfolded in four acts, each illuminating
K. Saveshan explores the human-earth relationship through dance (opens the original)
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What does it mean to call the earth our mother when human civilisation is built on extracting from her? The tension between dependence and exploitation formed the conceptual core of K. Sarveshan’s Prithvi, with Amritha Murali lending vocal support, on the opening evening of Pancha Bhootha Bharatham, the 28th annual thematic festival, hosted by Natyarangam, the dance wing of Narada Gana Sabha Trust. The five-day festival explroes the Pancha Bhootas — Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Apah and Prithvi — with ea
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