Rasavikalpam, a ten day dance festival was
organized by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy at four different venues in Kerala, India on the first week of November
2013. The dance festival also conducted workshops at the different venues by
eminent dancers. The workshop was organized for Indian classical dance forms kathak, bharathanatyam and kuchipudi. The course directors
were Sreelatha Vinod, the renowned Bharathanatyam dancer; Manju Bhargavi, the famous Kuchipudi dancer and Prasanth
Shah, an outstanding male kathak dancer. The workshops were conducted in the
morning followed by classical dance performances by artists in the evening. The
different venues of Rasavikalpam dance festival were Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum),
Thrissur (Trichur), Kozhikode (Calicut) and Palakkad (Palghat).
Thiruvananthapuarm
witnessed the festival at vyloppilly samskrithi
bhavan. The program was organized here by KSNA(Kerala Sangeetha Nataka
Academy) in association with the Soorya and DTPC(District Tourism Promotion
Council). Soorya is a non-profitable organization for Indian Classical Dance,
Music and theatre. In Thiruvananthapuram the program was called Parampara dance
festival. The opening of the performance was by Aparna Ramaswamy, a senior
bharathanatyam dancer and choreographer from USA. Here the festival was from
November-01- 2013 to November-11-2013. Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy
auditorium was the venue at Thrissur.
Kathak performance by Rajendra Gangani was the initial performance here. At Kozhikode,
the Rasavikalpam dance festival was organized in association with Navarasam public charitable centre, Chavara cultural trust and Sadhbhavana world school. The odissi
dance performance by Geethanjali Acharaya at Devagiri CMI Public School marked
the beginning of the dance festival at Kozhikode. The opening performance at
Palakkad was by Archana Narayanamurthy (Bharathanatyam). The festival was organized
as a second phase of Swaralaya dance and music festival 2013 at Palakkad. The Mercy college auditorium
was the venue.
Mythili
Prakash (Bharathanatyam), Nair sisters-Veena & Dhanya(Bharathanatyam), Rajashree
Warrier(Bharathanatyam), Meenakshi Srinivasan(Bharathanatyam), Seema Iyer (Bharathanatyam),
Shwetha Prachande(Bharathanatyam), Sruthi Jayan (Bharathanatyam), Divya
Devagupatapu(Bharathanatyam) and Aparna Vinod(Bharathanatyam) were other
performers. In addition to these artists, Dr. Draupathy along with Dr.Padmini
performed a dance drama at Soorya Parampara festival held at
Thiruvananthapuram. The whole festival was co-ordinated by Sreelakshmi
Govardhanan, the Kuchippudi dancer from Thrissur.
Kerala
Sangeetha Nataka Academy is an autonomus institution by Government of Kerala headed by Soorya Krishna Murthy as the chairman. The institution headquatered at Thrissur, Kerala, India has an aim to promote the art and culture. It
works in collaboration with the Sangeetha
Nataka Academy at New Delhi, India.