We are aware that defining culture is no easy task. Yet, for promotion of diversity of cultural expressions and for inter-cultural understanding, the South Zone Cultural Centre of Government of India virtually explores the indigenous knowledge of the seven States in traditional arts and culture.
The South Zone Cultural Centre, with its uncanny approach of capacity building and preserving the local and traditional knowledge systems, last week, identified traditional art performers to share the priceless wisdom with younger generations, paving the way for preservation of our cultural heritage.
Triveni Sangamam was presented on the last day of the festival — Nrithya Bharatham. This was for promoting and propagating different art forms in depth through Bharathanatyam, Mohiniyattam and Kuchipudi, to showcase the fundamentals of the dance routines over five days. This included workshop orientation and interactive dialogue and performances, with artistic ingenuity and originality. Also, for the same compositions, the artistes offered reinterpretation on various dance forms, revealing the classical canvas, which was inaugurated by Governor K Rosaiah.
Balagurunathan and Gayathri presented their Bharathanatyam performances based on bhakthi and devotion, which emphasise the essential unity of the art. Madhavapeddi Moorthy’s Kuchipudi exposition, which was based on renaissance age of the art, lent a scope to interact with other forms of culture and musical expressions.
The layered research approach in presentation of Mohiniyattam by Gopika Verma, established a cultural identity between tradition and modernity, expressively bringing out the efficacy of the abhinaya, which is the quintessence of Mohiniyattam, with the basics of nrita and nrithya.
It should be admitted that this dance festival, showcased the three dance forms - Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi and Mohiniyattam, created awareness among the audience and the students present, relating to various aspects of dance appreciation.
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