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alapana organized "Neythal- the Continental
Shelf" , a thematic Bharatanatyam solo performance of Ms Lavanya
Raghuraman, an outstanding disciple of Padmabhushan Sri V.P.Dhananjayan
& Padmabhushan Smt Shantha Dhananjayan. The performance was held at
Esplanade Theatre Studio on 19Feb,2011 at 8pm.
Lavanya performed to a live music with a
full orchestra. alapana arts’ head and the famous Singapore musician,
Mrs R.Banumathy herself was on the Veena providing a pleasing musical
support.
Lavanya is endowed with perfect rhythmic
sense and imagination in translating the bhava of the lines into probing
abhinaya. She had the needed stage presence and her repertoire included
traditional numbers all of them appropriate to the theme, Ocean and
coastal life. Opening the show with a traditional pushpanjali in
Gambhira Nattai, Lavanya went for a complex Kaanal Vari Padal from the
2nd century Tamil epic, Silappathikaram. It described the life in
Poompuhar, a coastal city which was engulfed by the sea later. The
emotions were portrayed in a picturesque manner. The visual description
of the lamentation of the Nayaka by Lavanya was moving. She performed
this piece with ease posturing as both Male and female with good effort
as well as effect.
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