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...production of the dance form globally,” says Amrapali Maitra ’10, who directed last year’s performance. “They are exploring the dance form in similar ways as professionals are in India.” “Kalpanam?? brings together professional-caliber dancing with a story that speaks to new audiences. Maitra admires the craft and creativity that the production’s group of dancers bring to the stage. “A two-hour classical dance drama in India would be choreographed by a dance teacher...
...Association will bring Bharatanatyam, as well as other South Asian dance styles, to Lowell Lecture Hall in its third annual production of “Kalpanam.” Dance pieces will be interspersed with instrumental and vocal music from both Northern and Southern India. While “Kalpanam?? is a relatively new Harvard tradition, it partakes in a long history of Indian music, dance, and drama. “Indian classical dance is something that has been carried down for thousands of years,” says co-director Amrapali Maitra...
...Kalpanam 2006: Classical Imaginations,” combined dance, music, rhythm, and costume, in an evening that proved to be not only visually stunning, but also of educational value. Presented in Lowell Lecture Hall last Saturday night to a nearly full house, “Kalpanam?? consisted of two main acts separated by an intermission. Directed by Prerna Martin ’09 and Rohini S. Rau-Murthy ’08, and produced by T. Niroshi Senaratne ’08 and Ritambhara Kumar ’08, the first half of the show was comprised...
From its start, “Kalpanam?? lived up to its “classical imaginations” subheading. Ravi Shankar’s sitar—a Hindustani traditional violin-like instrument—strummed in the background and combined beautifully with a fantastic red light splashed onto the stage, where Brandeis University students performed the opening “Tarana” dance. Wearing pastel pinks and blues and hair twisted into flower-accented French braids, the girls danced in the style of Bharatnatyam—an Indian classical and geometrically graceful dance genre that dates...