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...
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...
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...
by Manohar Khushalani · Published 3 March 2008 · Last modified 12 August 2020
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...
“The Owl and the pussy cat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat…” Thrown together in a low-rent bachelor’s flat instead of a ‘pea-green boat’, the odd couple in this highly amusing...
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