Dance and music reviews
Colourful ragamalikaRagamalika, as the title implies, is a garland of ragas. Choice of the ragas are based on aesthetic considerations. Decorative patterns in their highly artistic forms are seen both...
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Pleasing vocalNadajyothi Sri Tyagarajaswamy Bhajana Sabha celebrated Kartheeka Sangeetha Shubha Sandhya for five days at Sri Kannika Parameshwari Temple, Malleswaram. Sri Kanakadasa Jayanthi and...
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Permeable dimensionsHowever faraway her photography may have taken her, Clare Arni has also been documenting and evoking the realities of mostly working-class Bangalore still largely immersed in...
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Revealing contrarinessThe World Upside Down, the photographic exhibition by the French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette brought to Sumukha by the Alliance Francaise (December 8 to 20), conjured a...
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Karnatic music in HarmonicaOn Friday, connoisseurs witnessed a different kind of concert at Dr H N Kalakshetra, Jayanagar. Of course, it was announced as 'Karnatic classical music'! But the instrument...
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It may not be a discovery that ordinary objects of importance and long-term handling drawn from around intimate as well as public spaces become somewhat invested with sensations, intuitions and...
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The Malleswaram Sangeetha Sabha conducted the Annual Hanuman Jayanthi with vocal (both Karnatic and Hindustani) and instrumental music concerts at the Malleswaram Sri Rama Mandira, last week.Sriram...
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Remarkable fluidity Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira conducted the annual Sankranthi music festival in which many duets - both male and female - were held for eight days. Lakshmi Rangarajan and Subhiksha...
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Indulgent irony'Humour in Art,' the fair but not so ample exhibition that just concluded at Crimson (December 11 to January 5), seemed to have been an unassumingly sincere and holding together, if...
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Colourful Sambhrama The 'Sangeetha Sambhrama' conducted annual 'Nirantharam' Festival, last week. This year under the leadership of Vidushi P Rama, conducted music (vocal, veena, jugalbandi, percussion...
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In tune with life's rhythmsThe title of Raghu Rai's latest exhibition at Tasveer (December 13 to 31) was "Divine Moments". On the obvious plane this could be associated with the not too numerous...
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The topical exhibition "Re:public" (Gallery Five Forty Five, January 13 to 26) curated by LinaVincent Smith marks and confronts associated issues. It triggers a focus on the individual as part of...
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The 93rd birthday of Dr R K Srikantan, the nonagenarian vocalist, was celebrated with the Sankranthi festival last week. Veena, flute and vocal concerts were held and a few senior artistes and...
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The Bangalore Lalithakala Parishath paid homage to Purandara Dasa through music last week. Senior vocalist and musicologist T S Vasantha Madhavi sang a number of Kannada 'devaranamas' in attractive...
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Against the classic spirit of photography that dominates Tasveer's exhibitions, 'Inner Space' by Italian artist Maimouna Guerresi (January 5 to 25) belonged to the rarer in its kind, where the final...
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Connecting ideasThe dual exhibition "Post-Oil City: The History of the City's Future" and "Bangalore Gardens Reloaded" was a very interesting event which strove to interactively connect ideas about the...
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Kinkini Nrithyotsava Bharathanatya, Manipuri, Kuchipudi, Mohiniatta, Odissi dances were performed at the 29th Kinkini Nrithyotsava, last week. On Tuesday, four young dancers (two boys and two girls)...
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The title of the current exhibition at Time & Space - "Vignettes. Passages. Parables The Madras Movement" - (February 3 to 17) allows one to expect a presentation around what is now a classic...
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When children of five years' age started singing 'Pahi Pahi Gajanana' at the Seva Sadana, Malleswara, audience were surprised. The children continued with another devotional 'Parvathi Pathim.' Next,...
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Attuned in evolvingEven though one trusts the talent of Sakshi Gupta, her exhibitions do not fail to surprise with their amazingly novel qualities, in particular that focused on complex insights and...
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