A new identity are thus being assumed by the participants while there is a fair amount of continuity in the subject and it has seen some amount of stability in its dramatic content, costumes, music, plot and carefully choreographed movement. At the same Chhau can be said to be traditional as
Choose Your Plays before you Buy your Tickets A Still from one of the plays: Othello This year the Bharat Rang Mahotsav will be presenting a fare of 81 productions selected out of nearly...
Still from Charandas Chor the Opening Play National School of Drama, 6th Jan 2010 The National School of Drama is one of the foremost theatre training institutions in the world and the only one...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...