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An Indian mentation of Beauty and the Beast will beryllium presented successful Bengaluru this Sunday. Titled Roopa Viroopa, it is simply a presumption by GoBrahma Productions and Shivapriya School of Dance, and explores the powerfulness of a emotion that beyond outer appearances.
Like the French tale, the communicative follows a colony miss and a cursed prince whose outward signifier has turned beastly. This reimagined mentation is simply a fusion of Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, people creation and martial arts blended with theatre and music.
Speaking to The Hindu astir the show, Roopa Prasad Doraswamy, laminitis of GoBrahma Productions says Roopa Viroopa is a solemnisation of emotion and the eternal information that real quality lies within. “Our people assemblage is the younger procreation who tin link with the communicative of Beauty and the Beast. Through this tale, we privation to present our accepted creation forms to younger audiences and get them backmost to auditoriums, that is our extremity goal.”
GoBrahma is simply a Bengaluru-based unrecorded acquisition task dedicated to reimagining accepted Indian question arts for planetary audiences.
Roopa Viroopa is simply a reimagined mentation of the French communicative Beauty and the Beast. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement
Comprising implicit 40 dancers connected stage, the amusement has been conceptualised and composed by Sanjay Shantaram, a Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer. Founder of Shivapriya School of Dance, Sanjay has blended contented and innovation successful his erstwhile works arsenic well, including Matsyakanya and Apoorva Bharatam.
Talking astir the making of Roopa Viroopa, Sanjay says the thought came to him erstwhile helium saw the French communicative performed connected Broadway successful New York successful 2004. “I realised I wanted to contiguous it to Indian audiences, integrating elements from our accepted forms of art, and that is however Roopa Viroopa came into being.”
“It is not lone for connoisseurs, but besides for those who bash not travel the classical creation forms, and a amusement similar this tin beryllium a mode of introducing it to them.”
Sanjay says each creation signifier volition person its ain conception successful the theatrical, and the finale volition spot each the elements travel together. “The archetypal portion and finale volition beryllium a blend of everything, presenting a merged theatrical to the audience,” helium adds.
Roopa Viroopa will beryllium staged astatine Good Shepherd Auditorium connected Sunday astatine 7pm. Tickets tin beryllium booked here.
