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Speed mars the melodyBoth music and dance programmes were held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, as part of Soorya Festival which is being held across the country. Last week there was a vocal duet by a couple...
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Tribute to a teacherSundara Prakashana' of Gowri Sundar published their 200th book "Swara Sadhakaru", last week. After releasing the book, R K Padmanabha, senior vocalist gave a vocal recital,...
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It rained ideasThe ample series of performances by mostly young local artists at Gallery Rasa on September 27 was another contribution from the well-guided enthusiasm and organisational skills of...
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Negotiating urban dynamicsOne has become almost used to the still relatively fresh and still enthusiastically practised phenomenon of artists' initiatives in Bangalore. Considered against an...
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Promising dancerB Bhanumathi, reputed dancer, is well known in the field not only as a senior danseuse, but also as a choreographer and teacher. She has trained hundreds of students through her school,...
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Architectural staging of atmosphereAlthough Tasveer has been accommodating different kinds of accomplished photography from old maharaja portraits to modern classics and clearly contemporary...
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A different experienceConnoisseurs of music had a different kind of experience at the Bangalore Lalithakala Parishat on Friday. A popular instrument of the eastern country - Anklung, was performed by a...
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Between sincerity and randomnessEven though one has got used by now to the phenomenon of artists' run initiatives in Bangalore, its sheer and often enthusiastic persistence against all, especially...
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Navarathri celebrationNavarathri was celebrated in the City by temples, religious institutions and also by cultural and social organisations with fervour. Special decorations, religious and cultural...
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Successful conferenceConcerts by both seasoned musicians and upcoming artistes, and academic sessions were held as part of the 44th music conference, organised by the Bangalore Gayana Samaja, last...
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Natural and the denaturedBorders and Boundaries', the just concluded painting exhibition of S Sham Sunder (Sumukha, October 13 to November 3), came after a long gap, the artist having been preoccupied...
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The coming together of Luigi Anastasio and Prabhavathi Meppayil in the Galleryske exhibition "everything/nothing" (October 5 to November 24) may seem strange at first, to nevertheless soon reveal...
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Nritya Bharath festThe Natyantharanga Dance School celebrated its Silver Jubilee with 'Nritya Bharath'. In the 5-day programme Odissi, Kathak, Kathakali, Kalaripattu, apart from Bharathanatya were...
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The spectator as actorS G Vasudev's newest exhibition at Galerie De'Arts (MG Road, Barton Court, 11th Floor, October 27 to November 24) brings a familiar theme of the "Theatre of Life" while taking a...
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Homage to ParvatikarSwami D R Parvatikar (1916-1990) was a Haridasa, great Rudra Veena player and a composer. He had created 'Dathatreya Veena' and has published a number of compositions in Hindustani...
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Tender harshnessAkbar Padamsee's exhibition at Time & Space (November 9 to 15) was a rare opportunity to see a significant body of his work. In particular, that the quite recent images were a...
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Flights of fantasyInstrumental music, discourse and dance programmes were held as part of this year's "Flights of Fantasy" festival of Ganjam. Vishaka Hari, who gave a discourse here on Saturday, is...
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Promising young dancersThe Nritya Nandana Performing Arts Centre conducted a dance festival at the spacious Jnanajyothi Institution, Yelahanka, last week. The centre is conducting the dance class at...
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Immersive probing"Project Cinema City" at the NGMA (November 2 to December 2) was an extraordinarily spectacular, if also rough and layered, display adequately in tune with the world it addressed....
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Expressive stagingThe 'Pondicherry' photographs by Sebastian Cortes at Tasveer (November 10 to 30) offered a charmingly classic and sensitive insight into the unique character and atmosphere of the...
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