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| Pushpita Saha | ||||
| An artist of exceptional talent and grace, Pushpita Saha brings the classical Bharatanatyam dance of South India to growing audiences in India and the United States. A student of Bhartanatyam since the age of six, Pushpita last studied with her illustrious Guru, Geeta Chandran, who is regarded as a star-performer amongst India's new generation of dancers. She also studied Carnatic music under the tutelage of Smt. Radha Krishna. Pushpita's stellar performances have been acclaimed at many dance festivals and she was adjudged the Best Solo Dancer 2000 in a competition in New Delhi. She was also selected for a CCERT scholarship for music. In theatre and film Pushpita was featured in NCERT television serials "Dishayyen," "Purana Kile Ki Atma Katha" and "Juddu ke Phool." She worked under Barry John's direction in the ten-part tele-play entitled "No Kidding." |
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Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam is a deeply codified dance form. With its ubiquitous flexed knee stance (arai mandi) the dance is a construction of abstract geometric and symmetric dance patterns (advavus) presented to complicated rhythm patterns (tala). This is then interspersed with the narrative (natya) and the expressional (abhinaya). An amazing directory of gestures (hasta mudras) enable the artist to communicate images, emotions and ideas to the audience. Artistry is achieved when a dancer, after mastering and perfecting technique, transcends it, and through improvisation and personal imagination (manodharma) dances with her spirit. The
music accompanying the dance is Carnatic vocal accompanied by
cymbals, mridangam, violin and flute.
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