Celebrating 25 years Nrithya bharath- Day1

Natyantharnaga is celebrating their 25^th year anniversary in ravindra kalakshtra with dance evenings spread across for four days the 5^th,6^th,7^th and 8^th. Bringing in various dancers together and cleberating is such a wonderful thing. Natyantharanga is a dance school held by Shubha dhanjaya the naatya saraswathi.

Delaying by an hour they started their first day of the celebration. In presence of S. Suresh Kumar the minister of law and order, Mahadevan babu, Mohan Suresh, Dhananjayan and shantha Dhananjayan the oldest dance couple and shubha dhananjaya herself. The program started with an invocation song by her own student Anunavya, who sang a song on lord ganesha and seeked his blessings for the successful celebration.

They started of with the Siricinchana- a dance ballet of ashta lakshmi presented to us by shubha dhananjaya and troupe. The 8 different lakshmies were present them self on stage as adi, dhanaya, veera, gaga, shantha, vidya, vijaya and dhana lakshmi respectively and the maha lakshmi shubha herself. The make up costume and stage setting was brilliant. The concept of each lakshmi sitting on the lotus was the part I loved the most. They looked like real goddessess themselves but they went a way too off sincronisation. Mistakes made were little obvious and shown clearly on the face of the little students. Shubha just outstood looked pretty and graceful.

A person in the audience says “there was a time when shubha wiped her sweat off the tissue on stage during the performance, which was very prominent even though she was sitting and the dancers were dancing in front of her”. This is something i dint notice may be i was involved watching the growing and up coming artists dancing.

Ranjana gauhar dancer from delhi took us to a totally different world by her different form of dance Odissi. She is a padmashree awardee and also trained in kathak, manipuri and contemporary dances. She started her piece with the prayer to lord shiva seeking his blessings.  She was graceful, energetic and pretty expressive. She discribed lord shiva on the whole and his attire, apperence and his character and his moods she also played the role of an devotee of lord shiva the expression chande and shift in the roles played was very good. The expression of anger and aggression hit like a spark. Liked the ending of the item with chakars

Kuru yadu nandana opted from the geeta govinda the eternal love towards the lord krishna. The nayika here is the vasakasajja. The person who waits and waits for her saka and while waiting she dreams/ gets reminded of the times spent together. This item was very pretty and cute.  The discription was very detailed and easy to follow whats happening.

A person in the audience said “An item of krishna always and that’s one thing I would love to watch. And I enjoyed this piece”.

Dancing footsteps in rain. Based on meer’s poetry which describes the love of the monsoon. The feel she had was amazing it was like she was really dancung in and with the rain.

The stage usage in all three pieces were bad, such a huge stage and she never moved away from the center of the stage.

The oldest dancing couple Padmashree Dhananjayan and Shubha dhanjayan presented to us the rama nataka keerthana in raaga malika and aadi tala. Firstly its very difficult to dance in that age on top of that they both had super balance, stretch and bends. They were no less than the youngest couples. They were filled with energy, enthusasism and smile; they danced throughout with complete enjyment and involvement.. the fight sequence was just excellent.

Gopal krishna barathi nanda a dance portraying lors shiva’s devotee and when he’s nt allowed to view the lord shiva. In raaga maachi set to mishrachapu tala. A solo piece by dhananjayan sir Im speechless about this piece it was just “perfect”. The involvement he had into the character was shown in his face.

"Its a honour to Kiran subramanium to play the natuvaanga for his own gruru's performance". said a person in the audience. 

An amazing show looking forwared for the next shows. Spread across the next 3 days.