| 'Ekaantha Seetha...a lonely furrow' 2006 |
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CCA's production, Ekaantha Seetha is a
Bharatanatyam
dance drama celebrating women of extraordinary courage and
character, of gumption and grace: Sita of Hindu theology,
Rani Lakshmi Bai of Indian Freedom movement, Aparajitha of
today's India. The underlying theme says it all: We reap the
harvests of the loosened fields of lonely furrows ploughed
by such women.
The troupe consisted of 16 acclaimed dancers from Kalakshetra,
Bharata Kalanjali and other eminent schools in Chennai led
by Guru Dhananjayans
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The production's
dance styles and music ranged from the highly classical to
folk, from evocative ragams to martial rhythms, from foreign
adversaries to village bullies and from uplifting moments
to rustic humor.
In line with its protagonists’ era, the languages used
in the production were Valmiki's Sanskrit, the Hindi of Tulsidas
and Subhadhra Chauhan and India's most recent language, English.
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