Arathi Anand, a student of Guru Jayashankar Menon, takes the stage this coming Thursday for a solo Bharatanatyam recital.
Menon, who received the Pravasi Kalashree award of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi this year, is one of the prominent Bharatanatyam teachers of the Capital and runs a school named Nritya. Arathi has been training in Bharatanatyam under her guru for the last nine years. She has participated in various stage performances and events organised under the auspices of Nritya.
This will be her first major solo performance, or rangapravesham, which, literally translated is the Sanskrit term for entering (pravesha) the stage (ranga). A common name for rangapravesham is arangetram. Arathi is the 68th student of the institution to perform her arangetram.
Arathi, daughter of Sreelegha and N. Padmakumar, also learns music under the tutelage of Sobha Krishnaswamy. Arathi is a student of class XI at Kerala School, Vikaspuri.
The performance takes place on November 6 at the auditorium of the Delhi Tamil Sangam, Tamil Sangam Marg, Sector V, Ramakrishna Puram, 6 p.m.
