"Ah, here comes the great day!"Well that was everyone's response when they realized it was the 12th of April,2013.Months and Months of hard work put in by the students of Ganesa Natyalaya had finally come to an end! You could see teachers running helter skelter, students rehearsing everywhere, parents admiring their children and make-up artists doing up the students' face. For the past two months the natyalaya was sounding like a nattuvangam or tattakali palace along with the well coordinated adavus (footsteps) carefully choreographed by our guruji. Suddenly there was an announcement requesting the parents to go out of the green room to the auditorium and I could hear the mothers saying "Aw! Look at you . You are looking so beautiful! Let me click a picture before you perform",to their daughters and the daughters shooing away the mothers by saying,"Mamma jao na, tang mat karo. Jaldi jao varna show shuru ho jaega!" (Mother please go, do not trouble.Run or the show will start) And the mothers silently obeyed their daughters' command. And after a long wait the show started. It was a great success. The audience applauded
and you could actually see the natyalaya's staff swell with pride at the wonderful performance given by the young bharatnatyam dancers who will take this tradition and dance form forward. Kudos to Ganesa Natyalaya.
and you could actually see the natyalaya's staff swell with pride at the wonderful performance given by the young bharatnatyam dancers who will take this tradition and dance form forward. Kudos to Ganesa Natyalaya.
A performance by the junior batch |