NARENDRA SHARMA FESTIVAL OF DANCE

Stage Management and Lighting Assistance : Murali Basa

I feel very happy to work with Bharat Sharma, my teacher. Narendra Sharma festival of Dance this time concentrated more about the solo performances of contemporary performers. The festival has 12 solo performances. The performances started with Sojini Gupta performance, which combines with the digital media as the design element had created an illusion of light and had given new impact on the performers body.

The performances by Bharat Sharma, Surjeet Singh, Rajsree and Subro Gosh have made aclear impact to the audience. These solo performances are individual with different ideas conceived by the performers  with a perceptible approach towards choreography.

The interactive dance of Mr Santosh Nair, with the digital media has shown the developments in the Indian dance performances. The design of the choreography is much more attractive. The inner image of the performer was screened on 30 by 40 screen on the cyclorama and the dancer was made a good interaction while performing on the stage. He also made 7 boxes on stage and interacted seven images on the screen with different movement and Mudras. I think as 7 is the most important number for Indians, The choreographer might used 7 boxes on the stage.

Neha Gupta and Himani Sharma the principle dancers of Bhoomika devised a meaningful performances from their own experiences. These performances  are  vibrant and vital in the festival. The moment based performances by Subhasish and Sangeeta Sharma had given an understand of classical adaptations of Indian dances.

The talkative dancer , a performance by Sumith Nagdev, definitely made the audience laugh. The performance comibines so many dance forms with the poem and script written by the performer. Martha Graham dance not the MARATHA GARAM dance was an interesting peace in his performance.

Karan's performance of ballet dance is a new kind of performance in the festival. It was attractive with out making an impact on the audience.

Being Stage Manager and the Lighting Assistance for the whole festival of dance had given me a different kind of experience to train Nirmal, Ankit and Neeraj. The festival went very smooth without much difficulties as its well planned in advance and well coordinated with all. The comparing of Sushmitha Gosh and project ideas by Tripura Kashyap is another advantage for the festival to be succeed. In and all Goutham's co ordination and lights design added a different flavour to the whole festival.
 

Raja Bhoj

Raja Bhoj a dance Ballet choreography by Bharat Sharma Lights Design Murali Basa

RAJA BHOJ , a dance ballet choreographed by Bharat Sharma for Lok Rang   organized by Aadivasi Museum, Bhopal. The Lok Rang is organizing this event  on the celebrations of republic day on 26th January every year.

The cultural evening is consisting of different cultural programmes from different state's folk forms and other traditional forms. As part of the programme RAJA BHOJ , a dance ballet on different interest situations from his life.
The dance ballet is consisting of sub scenes which illustrate the intellectual ideas of Raja Bhoj which was choreographed through Chachau dance. It also illustrates the irrigation steps taken by the king. The conflict between his knowledge and scarifies.
The set was a combination of three temples of Madhya Pradesh.The lights design by Murali Basa.

Slide show of the Photos of the RAJA BHOJ

Choreography : Bharat Sharma
Props Design : Murali Basa
Lights Design: Murali Basa   

JAATAKMALA

'JAATAKMALA'
Choreographed by Bharat Sharma,  Lights Design by Murali Basa

A new production 'JAATAKMALA', from Bhoomika Creative Dance Centre had given me a chance to create illusions on stage. The production is a multi layered from Buddhist jataka stories. The vibrations of the the stories are extending to create a spectacular images on the stage with different intensities. It has also provided me to meet challenges in creating private spaces of differnt stories in a separate zones. This production deals with the storis of monkey, gees and tortoise etc. from Buddhist jataka stories. As we toured down to south India with this production, I got a chance each time to redesign the lighting as the specialities available.

Choreography : Bharat Sharma
Lights Design : Murali Basa