Dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant to perform at Kalamandalam on Thursday
The Hindu
Renowned dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant stages Bharatanatyam-Kuchipudi production, 'Tales from the Bull and the Tiger', at Kerala Kalamandalam. Ten dancers, incl. Jayant, perform, with musical soundscape composed by Sathiraju Venumadhav & I.V. Renukaprasad. Jayant, a Padma awardee & IRTS officer, created Natyarambha & Kutty Kahani, digital products for arts & children respectively. Series of performances in five districts culminates in full 77-min version with 23 artistes at Soorya Festival.
Renowned classical dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant of Hyderabad will stage her Bharatanatyam-Kuchipudi production Tales from the Bull and the Tiger at Kerala Kalamandalam, Cheruthuruthy, on Thursday.
Excerpts from the work will be staged at the Koothambalam of the Kalamandalam at 7 p.m., bringing to life Ganesha, Skanda, Parvati and Siva through poetry, music and philosophy in Sanskrit and Tamil. Ten dancers will take part.
The experimental production retells the stories of Lord Siva and Parvati as told by their mounts Nandi and Simha respectively.
Along with Dr Jayant, the main performers are Mithun Shyam, Aditi Rao, Poojitha Namburi, Archita Bhat, Srividya Sripathi, Neha Sathanapalli and Ridhisri Yadav, besides Cameo Sreekanth on the lights.
Choreographed by the Hyderabad-based danseuse herself, ‘Tales from the Bull and the Tiger’ has its musical soundscape composed by Sathiraju Venumadhav and I.V. Renukaprasad. Digital design is by Gunjan Ashtaputre and voice is by Jayant Dwarkanath.
D., Jayant, a Padma awardee and artistic director of the Shankarananda Kalakshetra in Hyder abad, is an alumnus Kalakshetra and a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (2009). Having served Railways as an IRTS officer, her penchant for harnessing technology for the arts led her to create Natyarambha, a first-of-its-kind Bharatanatyam practice app.
She recently came up with another digital product named Kutty Kahani, a video-embedded e-book that brings stories by and for children through the prism of art.
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