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‘Dance is my breathing, my survival, my everything’: Mohiniattam exponent Sunanda Nair (opens the original)
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For 62-year-old Sunanda Nair, the journey from the Mumbai suburb of Goregaon to the world stage was never mapped out as a career plan. But dance simply kept opening doors. Nair began learning bharatanatyam when she was six, took up kathakali a few years later and eventually found her artistic identity in mohiniattam. In between, she became the first student in India to earn a bachelor’s degree (in 1989) and master’s (in 1991) in this dance form practised in Keralam. Then Nair upgraded to a docto
In kathakali, no character is purely evil – each deserves dignity, says Sadanam Harikumar (opens the original)
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The multi-talented Sadanam K Harikumar is oddly unsung. Perhaps that is because performs in so many different styles. Harikumar is a dancer who performs in both the kathakali and bharatanatyam styles, a singer in kathakali and Carnatic traditions, a designer of dance costumes, a sculptor, painter, a percussionist who plays the chenda and also a playwright. While many younger artists have won state and national awards, Harikumar, 68, has failed to attract much official recognition. Barring the Ke
With ‘Mathangi’ and ‘Chinmaya Charitham’, kathakali takes a giant leap into unconventional ground (opens the original)
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For the most part, Kerala’s kathakali dance form portrays episodes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana. That is why the themes of two recent productions, Mathangi Charitham and Chinmaya Charitham have come as congenial surprises. With Mathangi Charitham, written by Sreechithran MJ, kathakali tackles the stigma of untouchability, perhaps for the first time. It is the story of a woman named Mathangi, born into a lower caste, being accepted as a disciple by the Buddha. Chinmaya Charitham, written by
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