In pictures: Students of Tanusree Shankar Dance Academy shine at cultural show
The two-day ‘Annual Demonstration Show’ was a coming together of dance, music and art
By
Pooja Mitra |
Published 19.09.22, 08:32 PM
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Tanusree Shankar pays tribute to her husband and musician Ananda Shankar on the Day 1 of the two-day Annual Demonstration Show of the Tanusree Shankar Dance Academy, as Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar, chief guest for the evening, looks on. Four hundred students performed in the event at Rabindra Sadan, celebrating the Uday Shankar style of dance, after a pandemic-forced hiatus of two years. Adrian J. Pratt, the director of the American Center, was present on Day 2 of the programme
All images by Arijit Sen
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A student of the dance academy being felicitated by Jawhar Sircar. Six Uday Shankar awardees received certificates on the occasion
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The preparatory section (aged four to eight years) performed to the music of Ananda Shankar
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The evening also showcased creative and colourful costumes, a coming together of students of various dance groups and their styles
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A moment from ‘Gandharva’, an all-male dance presentation, to the music by Ananda Shankar
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Agni, choreographed and performed by the graduates of the advanced section of the academy, was a power-packed sequence. The music of the dance piece was composed by Salim Merchant, Vijay Prakash and Taufiq Qureshi
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A moment from Agni, where masks were used as a creative representation of the flames of fire
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A moment from the presentation ‘Aajker Raktakarabi’, based on Rabindranath Tagore’s play ‘Raktakarabi’. Choreographed by Uday Shankar Awardee of 2018, Aritra Sengupta, the act used Afro contemporary dance techniques to highlight the broad diaspora of dance forms practised and performed by the academy. The music for the act was compiled from ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘The Godfather’ and the compositions of German film music composer Hans Zimmer, singer-songwriter Sahana Bajpaie and Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash
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A performance named ‘The Village Festival’ was also presented by students of senior first year to the music of Ananda Shankar
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Unfettered Minds, a re-imagined section from Uday Shankar's 'Man and Machine', from his film ‘Kalpana’, was also performed. Choreographed by Tanusree Shankar, this piece was originally presented by the second-year students of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London in June 2022
