Promising performers
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The sisters could have attempted a less difficult repertoire befitting their age and experience.
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DELIGHTFUL SHOW The Suri Sisters gave a good Kuchipudi performance.
It was a delightful dance recital at Ravindra Bharati by the U.S. - based sisters, Pranamya and Pranathi Suri - both amateurs by way of age and experience. The presentation list had conventional solo pieces like the tarangam - Koluvaithiva Rangasayee, Bho Shambo and the like rendered tunefully by Swetha Ravindranath on the vocals and Shoba Naidu and Mahankali Mohan's nattuvangam. Of the duo, the younger Pranathi, strikes one as a more natural dancer. That she seemed more at ease with the stage was evident in the relaxed facial expression and well-defined footwork right from the start - Vedapatanam and Pushpanjali to the fairly long and complex (for her age) Koluvaithiva (culled out of the Yakshaganam Vipranarayana). Pranathi displays the potential to mature into an eminent artiste with a little correction in her stance (a more upright posture). As such, she is sprightly with her footwork, curvaceous body movements with accurate eye and hand coordination. In fact, Koluvaithiva Rangasayee needs to be handled by a more mature artiste in terms of abhinaya and Pranathi was by far too young for it. Hence she compensated with ample and marked footwork be it in the adavu display or in undertaking jati patterns. By the same token, Pranamya, the elder of the two went through her numbers with a weightless footwork and a synthetic abhinaya. Her plate dance (a typical tarangam feat) was a fiasco with Shoba Naidu's nattuvangam (jati series) and the mridangam by P.R.C. Sarma making for a wonderful serve and volley rather than the dancer and her plate reproducing the jatis with immediate accuracy. Pranamya made more sound with her anklet bells, bending her knees at every change of jati, rather than make a strenuous effort to echo the jati through the plate. For a dancer so young, one expects energetic movements be it the tarangam or the Bho Shambo a tandava type of item number which ought to be carried out at a tempo with vigorous footwork.
The change in costume for each number added colour to the performance as did the stage lighting. J. Dattatreya on the flute and Sai Kumar on the violin were up to the mark. The Veda Patanam by Mahankali Mohan interspersed with fundamental footwork patterns served as an auspicious beginning. Shoba Naidu's nattuvangam was in clear even tones and together with Swetha's vocals, uplifted the performance.
RANEE KUMAR
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