Music varsity to conduct festival of dance and music
Karnataka State Dr. Gangubai Hanagal Music and Performing Arts University will conduct a festival of dance and music in the city from Tuesday to May 3.
The festival, SNA Fellows and Awardees Festival of Music and Dance, will be held at the Vigyana Bhavan auditorium, Manasagangotri campus, the University of Mysore. It has been organised in association with Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
On Tuesday, there will be a Carnatic vocal recital by R. Visveswaran from 11 a.m. In the evening session, there will be a Hindustani instrumental concert featuring Sarod by Harvinder Singh at 4 p.m.
This will be followed by Odissi dance by Niranjan Rout, Manipuri dance by Sijagurumayum Noyonshakti, Mohiniattam by Kala Vijayan, and Kuchipudi by Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy.
There will be similar programmes featuring dance and music on the remaining days of the festival. Some of the artists who will perform on April 30 are Sangita Gosain (Odissi music), Sadhu Charan Mahato (Chhau dance), Osman Bai Hussain Bahi Mir (creative and experimental dance), Bhagavatula Sethuram (Kuchipudi), Pallavi Krishna (Mohiniattam), among others.
Other artists who will perform from May 1 to 3 include Subramaiam Shekar (creative and experimental dance), Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharatnatyam), Vinod Kumar Dwivedi (Hindustani Dhrupad), Margi Vijayakumar (Kathakali), Nirupama Rajendra, and T.D. Rajendra (creative and experimental dance), Shankar Shastry (Carnatic vocal), Harvinder Kumar Sharma (Sitar), Moinuddin Khan (Sarangi), among others.
While the morning sessions will commence from 11 a.m., the evening sessions will commence from 4 p.m. on all days.
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