A ballet lalita Prasang, scripted and choreographed by Rakhi Dubey Joshi was staged on the second day of three-day concert ‘Nritya Aagan Samaroh’ at Ravindra Bhawan auditorium on Friday.
It is being organised by Kalandhika Nritya Natya Sanstha Samiti first time in association with the ministry of culture, Government of India, New Delhi.
The ballet narrated the different interesting sagas of lord Krishna like kaliya mardan, makhan chori and other stories from the eyes of lalita. Here, lalita is Gopi who worships lord Krishna narrates theses stories. She loves him in different forms.Sometimes she thinks herself as Yoshoda, then sometimes like gopi, Radha and Meera. The ballet through beautiful moves showed that she feels him around her. A Raasleela scene where lalita acts like Radha, is waiting with her friends to play holi with Krishna from long time.
This act showcased the happiness of lalita when Krishna comes and played holi with him and danced along with her. ‘Aao re ghanshyam aaj phir holi khelan aayo re’ was the song over which lalita and Krishna danced together. Ballet ended with the union of Radha and Krishna which was beautifully presented by body language and facial expressions.
It was purely presented in kathak dance also took some touch of Rajasthani folk wonderfully leaving the audience mesmerised.Further, the programme began with a Hindi play To the Examiner directed by Gagan Shrivastava who is the former student of MP school of drama. Basically it was based on the bangali story ‘Manniye Parikhshakeshu’, written by Narayan Gangoupadhyay. The play takes a dig on education system at present society and how it is becoming costlyIJ
It is saga story of pre independence when the education was very costly. The play revolves around a character Swadhin Kumar who wants to be Scientist but him unable due to lack of money. His parents are peasants and freedom fighters. They lost their lives in freedom struggle.
The matured acting skills of the artists and the concept of the play impressed the audience and it was appreciated by the spectators a lot.