The annual Bharat Sangeet Utsav which begined in Chennai October 30. The Utsav, organized by Carnatica, will conclude on November 9. The festival will be held at Narada Gana Sabha. This time around, the Ustav is held in association with Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha.
The 10-day event featured a range of top artistes from assorted musical formats – Carnatic, Hindustani, Dhrupad, Gazal et al.
The Ustva had a two-day recess for Deepavali on November 4 and 5.
The festival will began with a special thematic presentation titled `Swaralaya’ by Haridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel and his team. The inaugural day also saw legendary vocal singer Dr. M. Balamuralikrishan bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award. The opening day also witnessed a lively concert by the indefatigable Aruna Sairam.
During the Ustav, music buffs were served with high quality music by top-notch artistes such as Prabha Atre (Hindustani), Gundecha brothers (Dhrupad), Anup Jalota (Gazal), Sudha Ragunathan, Sanjay Subramanyan, Nithyashree Mahadevan, Unnikrishnan, Vijay Shiva (Carnatic) and others.
The Ustav will conclude on November 9 with a `Tri Shakti’ featuring Dr. Balamuralikrishna, Sudha Ragunathan and Chitravina N. Ravikiran.
For details, contact: 91 – 44 – 4553 5576 or 0 94440 18269 /94440 18271 / 94440 18274. Log on to www.bharatsangeetutsav.org
Bhairav Se Bhairavi Tak concert will be held on 31st October 2010 at Sri Shanmukhanand Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Auditorium, Mumbai. The dawn is musically expressed through Raga Bhairav and the Dusk, by Bhairavi therefore the series of four concerts is titled as Bhairav Se Bharavi Tak i.e. “Dawn to Dusk”.
A soulful Sunday with Maestros with series of four concerts spanning morning to night will give the Music listeners the test of Indian Classical Music to be presented by none other than the living legends Padmabhooshan Pt. Rajan & Pt. Sajan Mishra. It will be the rarest of rare opportunity for Mumbai audience to listen to such vast melodious soulful music from these maestros themselves in a very close and interactive four part concerts. Perfect Octave has taken up this gigantic task to showcase such a huge musical heritage of Indian Classical Music
Venue: Sri Shanmukhanand Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Auditorium, Mumbai. Date: 31st October 2010 Time: 7.00 AM, 4.00PM.
Callezee Hyderabad sponsored few Durga puja mandals in kolkata as a part of the Durga puja Festival. They conducted a Durga puja Pandal competition and distributed prizes to the winners of the event.
The 39 steps will be held at Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall on 29, 30, 31st October 2010 in Chennai. It has a grand partnership of Radaan Media Works, evam is proud to present its latest production The 39 Steps. This production of the play has been an international blockbuster, a successful run of over seven years at Broadway and West End. This year this production is going to hit the theatres of India and first in Chennai.
The main interesting thing in the play is 4 characters play 150 roles in one and a half hours, in absolute master piece of visual humor and comic timing. The script is full of allusions to Hitchcock films, including rear window and psycho.
Evam is the award winning theatre entrepreneurship in the business of live entertainment shows, workshops and cultural festivals. Evam done over 25 plays and four hundred shows in the last seven years won the YPAE (Young Performing Art Entrepreneur) award for India from the British Council last year and represented India at the YPAE ceremony in England.
Venue:
Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall
Chennai Date: 29, 30, 31st October 2010
“Saadhak Band” is going to give their performance on 29th October 2010 at Kyra theatre Bangalore. They are the people’s band who is constituted of the people, who have been selected by the people and who pledge to make music for the people. The amount of respect and love that they have achieved from the people, they promise to stand up to it and give people a nu-age sound that is bound to get them in the groove and keep them bonded to their roots of Indian Classical and folk.
Hailing from different regions of India, the versatility of their music has its own definition resulting in a fusion of desi+beats.
The signature style has been appreciated and acknowledged by the masses. This fact has been proven by the publicity and fan-following of their compositions aired so far. “The album in the making will have full colours, bringing out the best in us, standing true to our name SAADHAK!” Said The band.
About Ram is a first show in which Kat Katha used animation. Roy is emphatic about the close relationship between the two arts. Puppets, actors, animation, masks, Chauu dancers and projections on stage make this production enjoyable for anyone especially for young audiences used to sophisticated technology of today. “Puppetry and animation are first cousins because you give birth to something that does not live and that you have to breathe life into. Animators use a flat surface and we use three-dimensional objects. Not enough collaborative work is being done because not enough people know of each other.
It has been performed at international theatre Festivals at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Austria, Pakistan and other places.
Kat Katha was established in 1998 and since then, it has performed several shows with themes as disparate as Shakespearean comedy (Almost Twelfth Night), HIV/AIDS (Virus Ka Tamashaa) and Indian mythology (Durga, About Ram). “For the last five years, we have working in the area of community health, especially HIV,” Roy says. As a puppet company, all their work is about addressing stereotype at some level. HIV brings an entire gamut of stereotypes to the fore. They are trying to figure out how to give puppetry as a tool to a community that they can then use it for awareness creation.
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IGNITE Contemporary Dance Festival will take place on 10th November 2010 to 13th November 2010 at Delhi. The first of its kind, this spectacular 4-day festival will showcase some of the most innovative and cutting-edge choreographers in Indian dance from around the world. With an extraordinary program that includes performances, master classes, workshops and exhibitions, IGNITE Promises to bring to this city, the thrill, energy and sheer dynamism of dance like never before!
IGNITE’s events will be held at prominent venues in the heart of Delhi’s cultural hub such as Kamani, Shri Ram Centre, Arts i, Max Mueller Bhavan and British Council. In addition to the several dance performances that will occur at these various locations each day, the festival includes an Informal Café Hub, Parties and drop in Classes for amateurs and beginners.
The principal sponsors for IGNITE are Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan, Norwegian Embassy and Asia Europe Foundation. IGNITE is supported by British Council, Sriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, Arts i, Embassy of the Netherlands, Pro Helvetia, India Foundation for the Arts and Bharat Forge.
Ranga Shankara Theatre festival will take place from 22nd October 2010 to 1st November 2010 at Bangalore. Ranga Shankara is a world-class theatre facility in Bangalore, India. The most affordable theatre space in India today, Ranga Shankara is dedicated to showcasing theatrical performances from India and abroad, to producing and commissioning new and innovative theatre forms and productions, and facilitating outreach programmes to build audiences for theatre and to impart theatre skills. Arundhati Nag is a Creative Director of “Ranga Shankara”.
Arundhati Nag, the Creative Director of Ranga Shankara unveiled the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival ’10 today. A total of 17 forms from across India will be showcased during the festival. Several rare and precious forms at this festival have not been seen before in Bangalore. The plays are in eight different languages and many have English sub-titles.
Aircel is the principal sponsor of RS Fest ’10. The festival is also supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sangeet Natak Academy (Sattriya and Kutiyattam centres), Kalakshetra, Chennai and the Janapada Academy.
Tickets will be on sale from Oct 12 at Ranga Shankara, www.indianstage.in, www.bookmyshow.com , and Daily Breads outlets in Indiranagar and Koramangala.
