Dance and Music Spectacle - Jamshed Bhabha Theatre

In collaboration with Sahachari..

Charishnu is a spectacular dance and music presentation that offers a glimpse of the diversity and richness of India`s performing arts. It includes a selection of the classical, folk and martial dance forms of this country. The wonderfully complex art of percussion is also presented through an ensemble of drums from different parts of India.

The word, charishnu, literally means `the desire to move`. Dancers of different forms move in varying rhythms, each in their own stylized way, each of them reveling in their respective languages of expression. The strength and beauty of each of these dance styles is captured individually, so that the viewer can savour each, yet appreciate the differences between them. All of them are given their due creative space, as they present themselves in their distinctive costumes, with their unique percussive support, in all the grandeur and the precision that are their hallmark.

This production is conceived and directed by Leela Samson, prominent Bharata Natyam exponent and Director, Kalakshetra Foundation. The individual dance styles have been choreographed by Sadanam Balakrishnan in Kathakali and Mohini Attam; Aditi Mangaldas in Kathak; Priti Patel in Manipuri; Imocha Singh in Thang ta; Aruna Mohanty in Odissi; Leela Samson in Bharata Natyam and Umamahesh Vinayakaram (in the percussion section).