Pandit Rajendra Gangani performs at St Xavier’s School during Spic Macay’s Virasat 2011 in Patna on Friday. Gangani said the best compliment he received for his dance was in Kashmir in 1996. “I was performing at a radio station when a person told me that he had heard the sound of ghungroo after a long time. The only sound he had heard for long was that of guns.” Picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey

Patna, Aug. 12: Feet can be more articulate than tongues. Kathak exponent Pandit Rajendra Gangani proved just that during a two-hour-long performance at Litera Valley School this morning.

The performance, a part of Spic Macay’s Virasat 2011 programme, began with a rendition of Shiva Panchakshara strotam.

Anjali, a student of the school who was in the audience, said: “It was amazing to watch Panditji dance. It is as if his feet and ghungroo were talking to us.”

The Kathak exponent matched his feet to the beats of a tabla. He, then, performed various parts of Kathak, like chakkar, udaan and paran.

His student, Swati Sinha, accompanied the maestro. Instrumentalists Amit Chatterjee (sitar), Vijay Parihar (harmonium) and Kishore Gangani (tabla) were also part of the performance.

Gangani said: “When I perform, I wander into ano- ther world. Only after I fin- ish, do I reconnect with the real world.”