Film festival – to be or not to be
Culture Cocktail (from Mid-Day, Delhi every Wednesday) Manohar Khushalani Film festival – to be or not to be As the 34th International Film Festival of India drew to a close it continued to...
Category: Performing Arts
Music in Healing Discourses on Music -6 Prateeksha Sharma
Music appeals to the emotional side of the human nature. Music stirs, births, expresses, fires, harnesses, channelizes and tempers emotions. Music precedes the development of language as a form of expression. That is because...
Music and Ritual Discourses on Music -5 by Prateeksha Sharma
Ritual is an innate part of the human life. Ritual whether in the form of an invocation, a sacrifice, a fast or a penance, a holy dip in a river, ringing the bells, a...
GEETIKA AND MANTIKA – AN ARANGETRAM TO REMEMBER A Review by Suryakanthi Tripathi (Former DG ICCR)
The two sisters, Geetika and Mantika Haryani, sixteen and thirteen years old respectively, had their Bharatanatyam Arangetram at the ISKON Auditorium in Delhi on 1st February 2009. For the young dancers, it was...
Music Education Discourses on Music -4 By: Prateeksha Sharma
There are two aspects of music education- music in education and music as education. Training in music from an early age for the purpose of discipling the mind and making a career out...
Chakras and Sound Discourses on Music -3 By: Prateeksha Sharma
In addition to our visible, gross body we also have the subtle body in the form of an energy field around it. The physical body contains the most dense and therefore visible energy....
Form Grace Poise
Form Grace Poise Preminder Singh reviews a dancer’s performance Bindu Juneja There was a breath of fresh air in the dance world at The Habitat centre auditorium on 30th july. Bindu Juneja breezed in...
Me, Kash & Cruise
Me, Kash & Cruise – A Competent and Cleverly Crafted Production of Significance A Review by Manohar Khushalani (Left) Rajit Kapoor as many faces of “Bombay” (Right) Amit Mistry & Neil Bhoopalam As a...
Arunima – a dancer who educates as she performs
I first saw Arunima dance before a TV camera in Lodhi Gardens. The effortles ease with which she glided through her steps almost simulated levitation. She is one of the India’s most versatile leading...
A Young Dancer’s First Solo
A Young Dancer’s First Solo -Manohar Khushalani An Arangetram in dance is like an airplane pilots first solo flight – an announcement to the worldthat you have arrived and can now go it alone. Shruti...
