‘Vivarta: Transformations’ : Telling the Earth’s story

Sujatha and Shriya Srinivasan’s ‘Vivarta: Transformations’ utilized the connection of Bharatanatyam to bring location the cosmopolitan interest of clime change. Backed by fantabulous euphony composed by violinists Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Lalgudi VVijayalakshmi and voiceovers, ‘Vivarta’ was astir however greed and over-exploitation ruin the Earth.

The storyline was a spot simplistic. From the brink of devastation, the painless betterment felt a spot naïve, but it whitethorn beryllium passed disconnected successful the involvement of creator liberty. But, the students of Sujatha’s Shri Kalaa Mandir made up with their timing and coordination.

The accumulation began with notation of the Big Bang, and moved connected to depicting the 5 primordial elements. The second was portrayed done a beauteous medley of ragas and swaras (M.S.Sukhi), portion instauration was showcased done different ragamalika composed by the Lalgudi siblings.

The prime of ragas aided successful the advancement of the communicative – Vakulabaranam was utilized to amusement the Earth’s diminution arsenic each earthy assets is polluted. The Earth retaliates with wood fires and destruction. The opus ‘Mannil...’, speaking astir what comes from the Earth has to spell backmost to it (written by Vijayalakshmi and composed successful raga Bhavapriya), followed. Eventually, radical realise their mistake, inquire the Earth’s forgiveness and instrumentality corporate work to attraction for her. Nature heals.

The dancers were Sujatha Srinivasan, Shriya Srinivasan, Nithya Kasibhatla, Sita Vakkalanka, Sweta Balaji, Samyutha Polaconda, Nandita Srikumar and Sneha Upadhyayula.

There was a thillana (Basant Bahar, tisra nadai Adi) and a ‘Bhoomi Mangalam’ (from Chants of India by Pt Ravi Shankar). There were a mates of instances wherever 1 felt the euphony and creation could person been much detailed. But for that, ‘Vivarta’ was a well-intended and well-executed effort.