It is the most intimate of Malavika Sarukkai’s explorations in dance. When she first appears on the vast darkened empty space at the Music Academy, it is stripped of the paraphernalia of the classical dancer’s repertoire. The musicians on a […]
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“Don’t practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it, and knowledge, can raise man to the Divine.” Ludwig van Beethoven Two Bharatanatyam performances of 2022 Margazhi season exemplified this quote – one is […]
Malavika Sarukkai celebrates 50 years of her dance journey by staging a new work Fifty years of an artistic journey is an occasion not only for celebration, but also for deep introspection. Malavika Sarukkai’s performances have often been spoken about […]
Malavika Sarukkai’s performance of ANUBANDH-CONNECTEDNESS on January 8th at the Music Academy was just that. It was a spiritual experience, a sacred space that moved beyond words. Yes, there was music, there were mantras, there were chants, there were poetic […]
Tradition, in the context of hereditary dance and its music, is riddled with more questions than answers. We grapple with its present day contextualisation, much of the time in spurts of emotional zeal and laced with an undercurrent of guilt […]
In a lec-dem-cum-performance, dancer Aniruddha Knight made you wonder if he is a musician who can dance, or vice versa When Aniruddha Knight, grandson of T. Balasaraswati, and from a lineage of musicians and dancers who can be traced back […]
‘Unspoken Realities’, an event conceptualised by Shreya Nagarajan Singh Arts Development Consultancy, will bring together two iconic hereditary artists – Padma Shri R Muthukannammal and Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Annabattula Lakshmi Mangatayaru. This marks the first-ever meeting of two artists […]
Malavika Sarukkai is all set to present Chennai with the latest edition of the ‘Dance for Dance’ festival! This Christmas, the margazhi season in Chennai will crescendo to one of the most awaited dance festivals that finally makes its way […]
The HCL sponsored concert at Kamani auditorium, attracting Delhi’s art cognoscenti, featuring Malavika Sarukkai’s scintillating post-pandemic maiden offer Anubandh (meaning connectedness) could not have been better timed- coming as it did, after the harrowing period of forced isolation, with loneliness […]
For Malavika Sarukkai, the award-winning Indian classical dancer, her craft is almost always inspired by experiences that moved her. The Bharatanatyam artiste won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2002 and was honoured by the Government of India in 2003 […]
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