on the 27th of april, us students of guru bandana sen and senior disciple suchandra banerjee put on a show at rabindra sadan, a pretty big-time stage in kolkata. us intermediate students performed a bunch of bols (short dance compositions), some tatkar (footwork), some gat, some thaat, all the mish-mash of a standard kathak performance... but with some eccentric choreography by suchandra-di. then some of the elder students performed a tharana, which i guess you could describe as a bunch of bols and footwork woven together with a sung verse it keeps coming back to.
it was crazy and chaotic. the stage was squishy. the lights were blinding. the dancers were underpracticed. i was exhausted, half-sick, dehydrated... but it was pretty amazing. somehow it all came together, somehow there was no catastrophe... anyway, here are the pictures.
posing in the green room.
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