A two-day music and dance festival brings some of the country's best performing artistes together in Mumbai
Au00a0two-day music and dance festival brings some of the country's best performing artistes together in Mumbai
"It's going to be two evenings with a touch never seen before in Mumbai," promises Mahesh Babu, director, Banyan Tree Events, as he tells us what to expect from Kala Viraasat. The cultural festival will showcase some of the finest acts in Indian music and dance. Names like Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Louis Banks, the Nizami Brothers, Guru Singhajeet Singh, Charu Sija Mathur, Guru Jaya Rama Rao and Vanashree Rao hold celebrity status already, but it's the fusion they will create on stage that is the USP of this event.
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Guru Singhajeet Singh and Charu Sija Mathur |
The first day of the festival will see a fusion dance performance, Jai Bharati, choreographed by Geeta Chandran with eight classical dancers from different disciplines in one ballet: Guru Singhajeet Singh and Charu Sija Mathur (Manipuri), Guru Jaya Rama Rao and Vanashree Rao (Kuchipudi), Bharati Shivaji (Mohiniattam), Shovana Narayan (Kathak), Madhavi Mudgal (Odissi) and Geeta Chandran (Bharatanatyam). The dance performance will be followed by a Sufi music performance by the Nizami Brothers, the Darbari Astana singers of Hazrat Khwaja Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah in New Delhi.
The second evening will see fusion of another kind as the traditional Indian flute and Jazz piano meets the harp, western drums and tabla. "In the West, the harp and flute have been played in tandem for centuries, but this is the first time we have worked with the Indian bamboo flute, which has a distinct sound. In Jazz music too, the piano and western flute have been a celebrated duo but here you'll see a novel melting of sounds. It's a first anywhere in the world," claims Babu.
On: Today, at 7 pm, August 21, at 7 pm.
At: Nehru Centre Auditorium, Annie Besant Road, Worli.
Call: 24964680 Donor passes: Rs 500, Rs 400, Rs 300 and Rs 200, per day
