KAVI

Kavi was held on the 4^th november in ADA rangamandira. Kvi was a dance evening of contributions of the poests. Where various dancers came together to perform various styles of dance. They choose composition of different poets. Kavi was organized by the Indian dance alliance and Padamalaya dance foundation. In presence of the chief guest Radika surjith, a deciple of dhananjaya. The is the founder of taka dhimi tha and educational and entertainment programs based on dance on jaya tv which has successfully completed over 400 episodes introducing and recognising around 4200 artists.

“poetry is music of the soul” a compostion by subramanya barathi was gthe first item presented to us. It started of with introducing the item as a voice piece with no one on stage, continued with a small dute performance of the shloka and the continued with the main piece of it where there were 2 more dancers joining in. it was a combination of two short girls and two tall girls which added beauty to the stage. A small drawback in the perfermance was one of the tall girls aramandi she had to put in more effort and sit to match the others level. One more minute thing was they all sat for tapas chnting om mantra and one gal was with her eye open. They protrayed a story of the mother and daughter it was very naturalastic, cute and affectionate.

Speaking to a dancer next to me in the audience this is what she had to say “Mistakes do happen and even the minute of minute mistake stands out and becomes obvious to a dancer in the audience”.

Bringing in the Jayadeva’s compostion which existed during the 16^th century in kerala stepped in Probal gupta and mythili anoop. Presenting to us a jugal bandi of rada and krishna in two different forms- mohini aatam and kathakalli. Shree krishna geetha. They made use of their own props and brought in extra stage settings. The whole piece was very expressive and a expression explosion. Both of them were very expressive and Prabhol’s expression out stood. His expressions are so amazing that it strikes the last person in the auditorium. Mythili looked extra pretty with the amazing combination of red and white costume. I was so into the dance that I was swaying myself with their movements.

A person in the audience said “I love prabal’s eyes and expression I just want to see him once without costume and make up to kno how his eyes really are and wonder how he can express so well and bright”

Sharmila mukarjee and troupe presented to us a a compostion by the buddhist monk called Chandikala. It’s a story of a small untouchable  girl called prakurthi who always aked her mother why she gave birth to her? Seeing the way the world treats her. This was presented to us by a group of odissi dancers from the tiny tot’s to teens to adults. This was a ballet more than a dance I can say. Very emotional and touching with a messgae to the audience. Each and every one did a very nice job with lovely smile, emotions and expressions.

A composition of vadiraja presented to us by Praveen kumar and sneha. They had four different slots or stages of their act.

1)      The diff between vishnu and shiva was more like a jugal bandi each one took one person and portrayed.

2)      how a father plays with krishna and takes care of him. This is one of the rare concept its because we hve only heard of the mother and krishna stories. But this was a brilliant concept. This is the second time I saw a father and krishna relation. The first time I came across the same concept in World’s dance day. The portrayal and expressions were very classy.

3)      Rada waiting for kroshna and describing feelings to her saki was very like a normal behavious of a girl and how she explains things ot her saki. This was more of a abhinaya piece and the abhinaya was perfect.

4)      krishna’s dance and beauty this was a duet performance wad the foot work here was the best part of the piece.

The best part of this whole composition was the trancisition between the slots. Just loved the way they entered and exitted. Thia was a energy blast performance.

It was totally a bliss to see various artists of different forms to come together and dance. This wouldn’t have been possible without Padma the founder of Padmalaya dance foundation and sucessful without Nokia and TVS motors who sponsored the program.