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raji,

re your post #999,

why should we mix culture and bhakti?

there is an intrinisic beauty in the arts, shorn of religiosity. i agree, that to a large degree carnatic music and bharatanatyam are still tied to the apron strings of bhakti. meaning, they represent a culture as of fashion a few centuries ago.

i feel, that it is time, that we move on from that genre, to modern themes. why not have a dance ballet of today's woman ie bharathiar's pudhumai penn, handling the multiple role of career woman, wife, homekeeper, cook, mother and wife - all with apparent ease?

why not introduce the theme of a job interview for an item piece in a bharatanatyam performance - instead of the same old predictable stuff.. Aranga Pooja, Thillana, Varnam, Nirdham, Jadhiswaram with only perhaps a kuravanji stuff thrown in, in the name of 'pop' stuff?

it is not that we do not know how to choreograph such stuff... why is there no willingness? what is it that forbids us to get out of the rut, and bring bharatanatyam to the popular masses?

<blockquote data-quote="kunjuppu" data-source="post: 113100" data-attributes="member: 1966">raji,re your post #999,why should we mix culture and bhakti?there is an intrinisic beauty in the arts, shorn of religiosity. i agree, that to a large degree carnatic music and bharatanatyam are still tied to the apron strings of bhakti. meaning, they represent a culture as of fashion a few centuries ago.i feel, that it is time, that we move on from that genre, to modern themes. why not have a dance ballet of today&#039;s woman ie bharathiar&#039;s pudhumai penn, handling the multiple role of career woman, wife, homekeeper, cook, mother and wife - all with apparent ease?why not introduce the theme of a job interview for an item piece in a bharatanatyam performance - instead of the same old predictable stuff.. Aranga Pooja, Thillana, Varnam, Nirdham, Jadhiswaram with only perhaps a kuravanji stuff thrown in, in the name of &#039;pop&#039; stuff?it is not that we do not know how to choreograph such stuff... why is there no willingness? what is it that forbids us to get out of the rut, and bring bharatanatyam to the popular masses?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kunjuppu, post: 113100, member: 1966"] raji, re your post #999, why should we mix culture and bhakti? there is an intrinisic beauty in the arts, shorn of religiosity. i agree, that to a large degree carnatic music and bharatanatyam are still tied to the apron strings of bhakti. meaning, they represent a culture as of fashion a few centuries ago. i feel, that it is time, that we move on from that genre, to modern themes. why not have a dance ballet of today's woman ie bharathiar's pudhumai penn, handling the multiple role of career woman, wife, homekeeper, cook, mother and wife - all with apparent ease? why not introduce the theme of a job interview for an item piece in a bharatanatyam performance - instead of the same old predictable stuff.. Aranga Pooja, Thillana, Varnam, Nirdham, Jadhiswaram with only perhaps a kuravanji stuff thrown in, in the name of 'pop' stuff? it is not that we do not know how to choreograph such stuff... why is there no willingness? what is it that forbids us to get out of the rut, and bring bharatanatyam to the popular masses? [/QUOTE]

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