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The period of December successful Chennai is astir invariably associated with the Margazhi season, a month-long festival of classical euphony and dance. Bringing the tone of Margazhi to Coimbatore is Medai — The Stage, with its ain line-up of classical creation performances. Curated by Preeti Banerjee, who primitively launched the festival astatine Medai’s Bengaluru abstraction successful 2023, the Coimbatore variation carries the theme, ‘Art Beyond Boundaries — Tradition Meets New Narratives’. The festival, organised successful collaboration with Shree Natya Nikethan, opened connected December 21.
The line-up, portion undoubtedly inspired by the Margazhi play successful Chennai, does travel with a twist. The absorption present is exclusively connected classical dance, and volition showcase performances going beyond Bharatanatyam to see Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi and Mohiniattam. “The thought was to instrumentality the tone of the Margazhi festival extracurricular Chennai, by incorporating different classical forms arsenic well. We tried it archetypal successful Bengaluru successful 2023, and the results were encouraging. With Medai opening its abstraction successful Coimbatore a twelvemonth ago, we felt the clip was close for this metropolis to besides get a sensation of the Margazhi season,” says Preeti.
Margazhi festival brings unneurotic performances that are simultaneously rooted successful contented and responding to modern narratives | Photo Credit: Special arrangement
As the taxable suggests, the Margazhi festival brings unneurotic performances that are simultaneously rooted successful contented and responding to modern narratives. The performances, totalling 80 including artists from wrong the State and outside, are divided into 2 wide categories : Senior Artists Showcase, wherever established artists execute on with their students, and Nava Spandanam, which volition item caller endowment and perspectives.
The performances volition spell connected till January 22, 2026, with day shows astatine 12 and 2pm, and evening performances from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. The festival is co-curated by Shakira, Balakrishnan, Sakthi Madhumithaa and Kriti, and tickets for the festival tin beryllium purchased astatine theticket9.com
