In an evening soaked with music and dance, the little girls of Divine School of Dance left the audience mesmerized on Monday with their delicate skills in classical dance. They performed the hand ‘mudras’ in rhythm with the classical songs played in the background.
The school organised a programme ‘Kalakaron ka manch’ to help the artists showcase their acquired talents in various domains like ‘kathak dance’, ‘Gaayan’, ‘Vadan’ and ‘Natya’. Subhash Dewrari, student of the theatre artist from Dehradun Sudarshan Juniyal, presented an act on the folklore based Garhwali drama centring around Jitu Bagadwal. The story is based on Jitu playing his flute on a high mountain pasture and thereby attracting the mountain spirits who ultimately cause his downfall. The tune played on the flute was meant to invoke the spirits peopling the supernatural world housed in the high mountains.
Under the instrumentation category, Tabla recital was done by faculty Kala Ashram Prabhakar Pandey while the vocal recital was performed by Yogesh Acharya, music teacher from EMB BHEl School who presented devotional songs dedicated to lord Krishna.
Speaking to The Pioneer, founder of Divine School of Dance, Madhavi Bhattacharya said, “I am always in favour of introducing the younger generation to the Indian traditional culture. This time, our school staged the programme in a temple to bring home the point that in the yesteryears, all art forms flourished in the temples. In ancient India, sculpture painting, dance, music and theatre used to originate in the temples with the temple authorities acting as the patrons. This is why all the art forms that flourished then were related to spiritualism, the keynote of the Indian civilisation.”