The best of Indian Classical Dance forms would be performed by exponents at the eight-day National Festival of Dance – Nrithya Vaisakhi -2014 – starting Thursday in the City.
The dance festival being organised by Andhra Music Academy in association with Sangeet Natak Akademi would have performances of Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Manipuri. For the first time a martial dance form of Assam Sattriya would be staged in the city, festival coordinator G. Prabhakar said here on Tuesday.
The Nrithya Vaisakhi is being organised with the blessings of Satguru Sivananda Murthy with an aim to introduce the rich cultural heritage of the nation to the youth of the city, for the purpose through the week there would be Lec-Dem by exponents on the Classical Dance forms like Kuchipudi, Kathak, Bharatanatyam and Odissi, member of the Siva Ganga Sangeeta Parishad Trust Raghavendran explained. For the convenience of the students and learners the Lec-Dem is being held in the morning at the venue – Kalabharati Auditorium – he said.
The eight-day programmes would have dance ballets in Kuchipudi by Anuradha Jonnalagadda, in Kathak by Mangala and Raghav Raj Bhatt, in Mohiniyattam by Gopika Varma, Sattriya Dance by Sharodi Saikia and party, Odissi by Aruna Mohanty and Bharatanatyam by Rajeswari Sainath and another by Ananda Shankar Jayanth.
The Sangeet Natak Akademi is sponsoring the Manipuri and Sattriya Dance programmes as part of its efforts to promote these Classical Dance forms across India, Dr. Prabhakar said. The entry is free for all the programmes, he added.
