Bharatanatyam exponent Malavika Sarukkai’s arriving opening sings a praises of water, art, mythology and life itself
Malavika Sarukkai. Pic/Shalini Jain
To consider of things that have been pronounced about H2O — and a ways in that it binds a counterpart to life — we are reminded of Canadian author and narrator Margaret Atwood’s words. In her novella, The Penelopiad, she describes H2O as a force that feels like a caress; it doesn’t resist, and flows on. She reminds a reader that a studious tide of H2O can continue a stone. And so, being half water, if we “can’t go by an obstacle,” we contingency “go around it”.
Will Apah, Malavika Sarukkai’s jubilee of rivers, rains and fabulous retellings, leave audiences with a analogous doctrine in compassion? She responds, “I can plead that after we perform a piece. we haven’t achieved this sold combination progressing and don’t know how viewers would conflict to it. However, while dancing by a sequence, we can feel something happening.” The Bharatanatyam dancer explains that H2O has been a thematic indicate in many of her choreographies. “In Apāh, some of these aged movements will be presented alongside new ones.” Stressing on method and a synthesised impact, she adds that a performative art form in succession, binds utterly a opposite definition as one choreography leads to a other.
Will Sarukkai dance a stream for us? “The square starts with dual rivers — Ganga and Kaveri. The lyrics are opposite for both; Kaveri has some-more lyrics as compared to Ganga. There are influences of Krishna, Indra, Pichwai art and so most more.” She elaborates a loyalty to H2O is not only limited to a element’s earthy form. It toys with a suggestion that’s young, witty and energetic, and tries to retell a parable of Giri Govardhan from Srimad Bhagavatam.
Apah will also concentration on indulgence and sringara, one of a 9 rasas that means amorous love. And as we wait for rains to flow in this boiling heat, Sarukkai records how rivers merging into a seas leave us with philosophical reflections. The fable can’t, however, let go of a stress of method in her arriving performance. “We start with a tales of Ganga and consider of a astronomical stream that brings service to a sold terrain, and then, pierce on to Kaveri that has been described as a speed of a pleasing woman,” she signs off.
From: Jun 4 to 5; 6.30 pm
At: Experimental Theatre, NCPA, Nariman Point
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