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The city will see a unique dance extravaganza on March 3 as Nrityabharti Performing Arts is bringing out the 9th edition of national dance festival. The four-day event will showcase various Indian classical dance forms like Odissi, Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam and Tandava which will be performed on a single platform.
The festival is conceptualized by veteran Bharatnatyam dancer and choreographer Chandan Thakore. “During this festival, we’ve focused on connecting the old and new school of thoughts. We’ve attempted to envisage synchrony and synergy by incorporating fresh and different dimensions by bringing different dance forms on a single platform,” he said.
The event will be inaugurated with Bharatnatyam dance compositions at C N School auditorium. On March 4, Vyjayanthi Kashi, a renownedexponentof Kuchipudifrom Bangalore, will perform with her troupe and exhibit new dimensions of Kuchipudi at Prakash Auditorium.
On March 5, Tandava The Vibrance, a group of Bharatnatyam dancers from Bangalore, will perform at Tagore Hall, and on March 6, Ratikant Mohapatra, son of legendary dancer Kelucharan Mohapatra and a veteran dancer and exponent of Odissi himself, will perform along with his troupe from Orissa at Tagore Hall.
“To celebrate the decade of the completion of the national festival fro 2014, we plan to annually host the biggest 10-day dance festival of the country in Ahmedabad,” said Thakore who is known for propagating the art of Bhartnatyam by training thousands of students in India, Austria and Germany. “We aim to propagate and promote our classical dance forms and preserve our cultural heritage,” says Nirali Thakore, co-host of the festival.
