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Visual poetry in movement
Smooth fusion of music and dance.
PRESENTATION OF abstract themes through movement would pose a great challenge to both the creator and the viewer for it is inspired by the individual's imagination.
Ultimately, it is the aesthetic approach and committed work of the dancer-creator that kindles the real response in the viewers.
For the dancer it is like shooting in the dark, when he takes up any such endeavour.
Ranvir Shah of Prakriti Foundation and Anita Ratnam of Arangham Trust, this year in their annual feast of creative works through the Other Festival, featured Bharat Sharma, dancer with multi-faceted skills, along with Tripura Kashyap, specialist in Dance and Dance Movement Therapy, in the world premiere of their production Antar Deham, meaning between bodies.
Bharat Sharma has evolved his own movement technique for improvisation.
The presence of two dancers representing the two bodies moving into the open space at first and then within the given spaces with specific shapes seemed at first quite curious. But as it proceeded further the narrative based on the idea of the human forms in its inner and outer existence, sliding along, circling, stretching, confronting and compromising with one another and finally the two joining into one showing the absolute dissolving of the need for space for entering into eternity were all conveyed with clarity and ease.
Both Bharat and Tripura revealed their rich experience in contemporary form.
Another striking feature that enhanced the quality of this work was the musical support.
In the inter-face after the programme, Bharat,a musician himself, answering to a query on the musical input said that he had the musical ideas already in his mind, as he started composing movements for this work and that at one point both were fused. They certainly blended smoothly to project one another.
The tunes used were both classical and fusion melodies which provided an appropriate canvas for the artistes to create visual beauty through symmetry of movements.
NANDINI RAMANI
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