pain

Strange title.... Yes?  Sports people go through it ....and dancers do..career related injuries....How does one deal with it.........
 One can get depressed but that is no solution!!! yes medicines will help -but there is always a lurking fear that you may not do your best.....the first thing is to accept the situation ...and then take steps to fight it ...easier said then done !!
The key is acceptance and for me complete faith in the divine...Many times its a lesson and if one introspects one can learn from it...and once the lesson is learnt--things change for the better...actually one's attitude changes
One learns to value things that we always took for granted

Pain is a great teacher......so ....be grateful that 'HE' is teaching you things that otherwise you would never have learnt.....

some pics..........

a few pics from the chennai show.(Meera).................the last one is of the back drop.....

rhythm

Rhythm is the life of dance!  Have you heard a man clapping for a song and going wrong??? and in a public place you cant do anything ....best thing is to move away..if possible.
taal or rhythm..is part of our daily lives too....the pitter patter of the rain on the roof...a chugging of a train moving out.... the stedy breath of a sleeping child....and have you noticed that when one is angry,upset or excited....the breath goes of rhythm....so steady your breath when you are mad at someone...and see how you become calmer......Rhythm of the heart .....goes haywire and you know what happens!

In indian tradition Lord Natraja-another aspect Lord Shiva--is the god of dance....the damaru in one hand creating a sound divine......in total rhythm....shakti whoose dance of creation ...manifests this wonderful  universe....and another form of hers Kali   destructs( earth quakes..tsunami's) it in a total wild rhythm---All these are symbolic to the different energies at work

If you are in rhythm with life there will be harmony at home and the dance of life will blissfull

Today's Lord Ganapati is going home

Hi!!! For 10 days Ganesha  stayed at home...stayed in  simple pandal's.....stayed in magnificent  lavish pandal's...and today  He is going home.......and we say puchavarshi laukar ya...(.come back again the next -year-come soon)    The cycle goes on--- the cycle of life...

Lord Ganesha  The remover of obstacles --the granter of vidya(knowledge) and the most endearing son of Shiva and  Parvati    and we love to see him in different ways...........

Chittorgarh -Rajasthan programme

Hi!!!

Every year chittorgarh. has a programme called Meera Mahotsav. It was on the Chittorgarh fort that Meera lived with her husband (Ranaji)and his family. Rana's father -Rana Sangha  was the ruler of Chittorgarh.The fort has a temple of Krishna  built by the Rana specially for Meera --  where she could sing,dance and worship her Giridhari  to her hearts content.

So we had 2 shows-- the first one was in the town  and the second in the temple on the fort -where only selected songs were performed.. The temple vibrations were mindblowing.I had no idea who danced and who watched. It was Krishna Krishna Krishna.................... all along.

special children...cont

hi!!! cont my previous blog....the mr and down syndrome kids...have their own problems ...actually special!!!! u teach a step to a slow learner child 30 times and the 31st time he does it wrong!!! well these kids teach u a lot of patience ...and some of them have no sense of time ...you call them at 3pm and they saunter in at 5 ...and if u ask them ..they say they have come at the right time.....and the down syndrome ..very affectionate and i knew a kid who had a great sense of rhythm...and grace ..once you teach them  ..thats it ...u cant change the chreography...but actually very lovable...my work with this intergrated group of different disabilities was very enriching.....i learnt more from them .than..me teaching them!...they performed in the us at lincoln centre ny and other places too...It was dec and snowing and they enjoyed it....well there's a technique  of teaching them..and u cant make out that they have problems....( in fact i think we have problems.'cause they r pure at heart) 

specisl children

Its a great learning experience to work with special children.   I worked with an integrated group   of kids, teens and twenties. The physically challenged  group taught me how to teach them!!!! and they learnt my dance mudras and used them to communicate with me ( talking of hearing impared kids).they were great mimics....as they could not hear the music......the visually impared would touch me or i would have to do that ...either way they learnt and obviouslly would react to music!!!but sense of direction was another story.....

and the slow learners -down syndrome.......let me leave it for another time.....!

chennai show --For an international conf of welding

dance

hi!1 am gowri -  an indian classical dancer  a student of guru kalyanasundaram........dancing over years---work with normal as well as differntly abled children as a choreographer......recently done  a presentation on Meera where 2 of us have performed using semi classical as well as folk dance....