Simple Gujarati Man- Dhirendra

Good morning friends, something I like to share with you all. True to its name, JG College of Performing Arts Vividhotsavam is set to celebrate the variety in Indian classical music and dance from April 2 to 8 through workshops and performances on ASIA campus. Open to all, the workshops in particular will be a good learning opportunity for performing arts students.

Baha-ud-din Dagar of the celebrated Dagar family will conduct a four-session workshop in Dhrupad-Dhamar, the genre that in its rendition and impact has kinship with the chanting of Vedic mantras, on the opening and the second day and will give a lecture-demonstration on the second evening. Eminent Khayal vocalists Rajan and Sajan Mishra, whose names are synonymous with enchanting Jugal Gaan, will give a special performance on April 4, followed by a four-day workshop. There will be simultaneous morning and evening workshops in Kathak and Bharatanatyam from April 5 to 8. While the resource person for Kathak will be Rajendra Gangani, Kundanlal Gangani’s son, from Delhi’s Kathak Kendra, for Bharatanatyam Deepak Mazumdar, who has made a name as an imaginative choreographer besides being a graceful dancer and a competent guru, is coming.

Ranjana Gauhar, director of Utsav (Delhi), a gifted vivacious Odissi dancer of repute, will perhaps be performing in Ahmedabad for the first time on April 5. Kumudini Lakhia’s accomplished senior disciples Vaishali Trivedi and Prashant Shah will present traditional Kathak items the same evening. Two outstanding Gujarati contributors to dance, drama and music each will be felicitated at the festival.

Self-financed JG College, which has made its presence felt with a limited number of students in its fifth year, has the twin advantage of tenacious patronage and a young zestful faculty, now led by well-known vocalist Viraj Amar. More….