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GROUP
PRODUCTIONS
MAHAABHAARATAM (1998)
(Collaboration)
| "Cleverly
devised, fine performance. Very simple and straightforward in the narrative…the
main virtue rests on a team of excellently trained dancers whose movements
at no point show looseness in the dancing…Unstinting effort in planning
out each part of the production is what ultimately created the results…rich
production but not offensively garish."
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Leela Venkataraman, The Hindu, January 7, 2000
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| "In a performance
that blended dance, drama, music and narration, the artists of Bharata
Kalanjali told a story of operatic proportion. The exceptional work of
the musicians and dancers could best be compared to a ballet or opera…"
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Suzanne Connelly, The Post-Standard, Monday, November 15, 1999
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| "…the choreographer's
skill was reflected in the fact that even on the short canvas, they had
vividly and elaborately portrayed major episodes…"
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India-West, October 15, 1999
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| "For sheer
narrative accessibility, it would be hard to beat the way the Dhananjayans
and their Bharata Kalanjali Company highlight essential actions in the
epic through a rich gestural language and a splashy pure-dance vocabulary."
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Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, October 12, 1999
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