Bharathanatyam and Mohiniattam

Bharathanatyam by Harikrishna K. & Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir
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Mohiniattam by Gopika Varma

An NCPA Presentation

Harikrishna Kalyanasundaram is a choreographer, composer and nattuvanar in the Thanjavur bani of the Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir. He is the disciple and son of the legendary dance guru, K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai and nephew of K. Mahalingam Pillai. A seventh-generation artiste, he is one of the directors of Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir, an institution founded in 1945 by A. T. Govindraj Pillai, assisted by his wife Karunambal. Harikrishna K. has a distinct approach to shaping new classical repertoire and has created several new compositions for dance which have been showcased by artistes in India and abroad.

Gopika Varma is a Mohiniattam artiste and disciple of Girija and Chandrika Kurup, both senior students of Kalyanikutty Amma. She later specialised in the form under the guidance of Kalyanikutty Amma and her daughter Sreedevi Rajan. Varma also learnt abhinaya, which is the quintessence of Mohiniattam, from Krishnan Nair, the doyen of the Kathakali stage. Varma has performed extensively at various art festivals in India and abroad. She has been bestowed with numerous awards and recognitions including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Nrithya Choodamani and Kalaimamani Award, among others. Varma runs Dasyam, a Mohiniattam dance school at Adyar, Chennai.

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