It was a delightful evening for the classical dance and music lovers of the city, as they watched the mesmerising Kathak performance on stage.
A classical event ‘Chakradhar Kathak Mahotsav’ wooed the Bhopalites here on Wednesday. Held at Ravindra Bhavan Auditorium, the event featured the kathak maestros of the country. The renowned names of kathak dance like V Anuradha Singh from Bhopal, Rajesh Gangani from New Delhi and Asavari Patankar from Pune gave spell-binding performances on stage.
The classical evening began with the heart-warming performance by V Anuradha Singh. She began the series of her performances with Saraswati Vandana, in Roopak Taal and Raga Hansdhwani. During her performance, she displayed various roopas of goddess Saraswati.
later she performed the foot work of Raigarh Gharana. In this performance she presented at least five types of rhythms through the speedy foot work. It is to be noted that Singh has evolved sophisticated style in pure classical form based on fast speed and min thrilling foot work.
This was not all, Singh with 24 chakras on stage made the audience enthralled as they watched her with rapt attention. The Rhythmic understanding, ability to extemporize with speedy rhythms and preserving pure Kathak classical style are some of her qualities. She presented the pure kathak style on stage.
Interestingly, she presented the dance based on the rhythms during the time of Maharaja Chakradhar Singh. It was performed for the first time in Bhopal.
She took away the applauses with presenting 36 chakras on stage. then she wrapped up her performance with narrating the love tale of Radha-Krishna in Raga Kalawati.
Next performance was given by Rajendra Gangani. Hailing from Jaipur Gharana, Rajendra with presenting pure style of kathak made the audience enjoy the evening.