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| Dancing an Abstract Choreography & music: Bharat Sharma |
Rangavali
This dance has a nationalist element in its depiction. It has three colors of the Indian national flag and the 'Chakra' represented through the dancers. Movements revolve around imagined characteristics of each color by the choreographer and the centrality of 'Chakra' in the flag's formulation. This artistic interpretation is woven through individual and group movements in a triangular formation and celebrates the national flag as a symbol of our solidarity as Indians.
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| Rangavali |
Choreography - Narendra Sharma
Music – Moni Das
Flying Cranes
Original version of this dance was made in 1940’s while the choreographer was undergoing training under legendary dancer/ choreographer Uday Shankar at his famous Almora Centre, Uttarakhand. He was inspired by the hand gestures in a film on Balanese Dances from Indonesia. He then developed movements of hands to depict the flying cranes, and later connected it to the images of the birds flying from Siberia each winter to north India. Rabinadranath Tagore explored a similar theme in his well-known poetry 'Hans Balaka' which has influenced the choreography. The new choreographic version is the latest one in several renderings on the same theme and movements over the years.This dance is an artistic tribute to the great Siberian Cranes and their journey across continents, as well as the choreographer's concern for environmental preservation.
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| Flying Cranes |
Choreography – Narendra Sharma
Music - G.S Rajan
Antim Adhyaya
This long ballet was choreographed in 1984. The core theme focuses on the omnipresence of Death - as a complementary element of Life. Each dance elaborates on a specific theme, such as passionate love leading to tragic suicide; the dread people have to the very idea of death; of people getting untimely end in road accidents; adventurers like mountaineers getting involved in death-defying feats; women being subjected to death in ‘Sati’; excessive mechanization leading to industrial deaths; and a philosophical end where Death is seen as a beginning of a new journey into Unknown.
Each dance in the longer ballet was choreographed as independent pieces and was tied together as a full narrative. Excerpts that are being shown in this section introduce the theme in an abstract manner, leading to a delineation of a mourning sequence. The next dance is a comment on the vagaries of a mechanized age leading to industrial deaths, and the last section is a lighter interpretation of life on roads where accidents bring death to helpless victims.
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| Antim Adhyaya |
Choreography: Narendra Sharma
Music: Sushil Das Gupta
Panchatantra ka Sher
This dance was specially created for young audiences. Based on a story from famous Panchatantra series, the narrative is centered on a Lion and Rabbit. A Lion, the King of Forest, ravages animals to satisfy his hunger. Animals come to an understanding that they will voluntarily send one animal for his meals. When the turn of the little Rabbit comes, he decides to play a trick, and is able to fool the Lion to his death.
Choreography: Namrendra Sharma
Music: Sushil Das Gupta
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| Panchtantra ka Sher |
Kuch Kshan, Kuch Pal
This dance has been inspired by Indian contemporary and classical dance gestures and postures. These have been strung together to a fast paced rhythm and plotted in various points of space. The choreography consists of multiple abstract images, the exploration of bodylines in movement and the fluidity of dancing bodies in space. The dance is an interactive piece with a combination of movement improvisations and arranged dance phrases.
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| Kuch Kshan, Kuch Pal |
Music: Marco and Somesh
Nusrat
Song
This
dance is a tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his music. An ode to love, it
is an exploration of eternal values of Man and Woman, of Purush and Prakriti or
whichever way one could view relationships.
Choreography:
Bharat Sharma
Music:
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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| Nusrat Song |
Metro! Metro!
The choreography focuses on life around Delhi’s Metro, and ways it has brought about profound change in cultural life of city and public domain, helping the common man to live a more dignified life. Choreography is explores incidents and behavior patterns around metro’s daily run.
Choreography & music: Bharat Sharma
Jatakmala
This dance is an artistic impression of readings of Jataka Tales of the Buddhists. In the original version the tales are over 540 in number and are written in the format of evolutionary cycle of Buddha’s previous lives. However, the tales touch upon a range of issues of its times – ecology, animal world, human relations and wisdom stories. The choreography, instead of depicting specific stories, has images and impressions of reading these tales, and elucidates underlying meaning to several common ideas that run through the narrative.
Choreography & music: Bharat Sharma
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| Metro! Metro! |
Jatakmala
This dance is an artistic impression of readings of Jataka Tales of the Buddhists. In the original version the tales are over 540 in number and are written in the format of evolutionary cycle of Buddha’s previous lives. However, the tales touch upon a range of issues of its times – ecology, animal world, human relations and wisdom stories. The choreography, instead of depicting specific stories, has images and impressions of reading these tales, and elucidates underlying meaning to several common ideas that run through the narrative.
Choreography, music & design: Bharat Sharma
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| Jatakmala |