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| Bharatanatyam Lecture-demonstration By Sunanda Narayanan |
Press Release
03/03/2008
Date: Friday March 14, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe Yard (opposite the Cambridge Commons), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Organizer: The South Asia Initiative at Harvard
The South Asia Initiative (SAI) at Harvard University will present a lecture-demonstration on Bharatanatyam by Sunanda Narayanan. SAI has conducted a series of events since August 2007 under the banner “India at 60†to commemorate India’s 60th year of independence and the dance presentation is also part of this year-long celebration.
Sunanda Narayanan is an acclaimed exponent of the Vazhuvoor tradition of BharataNatyam. She is the prime disciple of Smt. Rhadha, one of the foremost Gurus and Choreographers of today. Sunanda has been performing for more than two decades and has given over 250 public performances all over the world. Sunanda has several awards to her credit. Apart from the Senior Scholarship of the Govt. of India, she was selected by the Tamil Nadu Eyal Isai Nataka Manram (a State Government Cultural Association in India) to perform under their sponsorship. She has won several awards – the Tamil Isai Sangam award, the Fine Arts Foundation India award, the Sindhu Memorial Award, and the Lions Club award, being some of them. In1993 the leading Indian newspaper “Indian Express†featured Sunanda in their Personality of the Week column.
Sunanda runs a dance school “Thillai Fine Arts Academy†in Newton, MA where she trains talented students in the fine art of Bharatanatyam.
The presentation for SAI will include an introduction to Bharatanatyam and several dance items drawn from traditional, contemporary, and modern literature. There will be a Q&A session with the audience at the end of the performance. The intermission will feature a short Carnatic vocal music performance by Samir Rao of Harvard Sangeet.
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