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Remembering 2013 June when I traveled back from Florida to Newark & went to perform in Delaware Hindu Temple. It was a very long day indeed with hours of driving thrown in. Those were the days dancing & rehearsing with my alma mater RDM in New Jersey.
Trance in Devine dance! What an expression!
A beautiful soulful recitation of the Gayatri Mantra on the 1st of January to usher in the New Year. What else can be this powerful?
2021 putting on my creative hat & getting inspired by my students. Feel the music in your soul & translate it using Odissi!
2021 begins with a sunset dance workshop where Mima Geere did a splendid job presenting Odissi so beautifully.
Emotions are Feelings in E-motion. Choosing emotions by understanding the initial sensation is a feeling: identifying past emotional roots; exchanging for refined emotions when helpful; Cognitive Reframing is one method but loses its effectiveness as behavior modificating, based primarily on denying an emotion. Modelling helped in the 60's with advances in Television. But today, well this Dr. has it right.
In todays age of social media striking a pose seems super easy! You need to realize that these poses are from Indian temple walls : the mudras, body stance & angles have to be perfect. You try to immerse yourself in the pose & give it a deeper meaning!
For many years I never did photoshoots! I only let photographers shoot me live on stage so that they captured my raw emotions!!
Wonderful
Beautiful!
Tribhanga -Tedhi medhi crazy on Netflix Jan 15th staring Indian ace actress Kajol. Super excited to finally see a top Bollywood star play an Odissi dancer. This hopefully will bring this dance more to the centerstage in popular minds. Inspite of Odissi’s call to glamour, Bharatnatyam & Kathak dominated in Bollywood.
(Pics courtsey Netflix promotions)