The immense beauty of Radha and the passionate love of Krishna made the Kathak performance a scintillating one. Here on Sunday, the Bhopalites witnessed a wondrous Kathak performance at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum.
The event was held under the Uttaradhikar series of classical performances. Under the Guru Shishya Parampara, Ritushree Chaudhary from New Delhi gave a beautiful presentation of Kathak group dance with fellow artists in front of the audience.
To begin with the performance Ritushree Choudhary and Mayuk Bhattacharya performed the Kathak Darbari on the stage, in the teen taal composition. The performance of the Kathak dance based on the motion of the feet was performed with tukde, tode, tihayi and paran.
In the next presentation Aradhika she presented the scenes of Radha Krishna's life in front of the audience through Kathak. The beginning began with "Radha Shukti", in which the artists presented their journey on earth to Radha's goddess on stage, presented her childhood, youth hood with beauty in dance style. After this, Radha, who was grooming for Krishna, kept the audience with the view of the devotion of the gopis and the presentation of dance "Ras" based on the love of Radha-Krishna.
Followed with it Ritushree Chaudhary and his fellow artists fought, sharing the words, presented the feelings of Radha-Krishna's immortal love and the feelings of their hearts with Bhav-Bhangima.
Prior to the Kathak performance, a jugalbandi on sarod and sitar was presented by artists Anil Jaiswal and Manoj Jaiswal. They began their performance with Raga Maalkons in Alaap Jhod Jhala. After this they played bilambit teen taal Maseedkhaani gad and then played Madhya teen taal.
They were accompanied by Keshav Prajapati on the tabla and Himanshu Soni on the sarod.