Impresario India presents "Panorama of Bengal’s Art Heritage" at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 21st-23rd April 2012

Time : 6:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Fountain Lawns and Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Details : In celebration of Baisakhi, Impresario India presents 'Panorama of Bengal’s Art Heritage'.
SATURDAY 21
FOUNTAIN LAWNS AT 18:30
Agadum Bagadum
Dance drama presented by MuktoMon children
Direction: Smt Durba Bhattacharjee and Smt Rama Jordar
Bostomi
Play by Rabindranath Tagore
Dramatisation: Shri Jhulan Mukherjee; Direction: Shri Soumitra Basu; Lead Actors: Soumitra Basu and Smt
Averee Chaurey; Production: Sandarbha, Kolkata
SUNDAY 22 
FOUNTAIN LAWNS AT 18:30
Pratham Puja – Sesh Pronam
Recitation: Smt Ishita Das Adhikari; Music: Shri Kingshuk Roy
Rajendranandini
Choreography in Chhau and Contemporary styles, based on Tagore’s Chitrangada
Concept, Choreography and Direction: Smt Soma Giri; Production: Nrityamandir, Kolkata
MONDAY 23
AUDITORIUM AT 18:30
Bashay Fera Danaar Shobdo
Readings, songs, rare audio-visual footage and dance explore a seldom-visited passage in Tagore’s life
Readings and Songs: Dr Ananda Gupta, Dakshinayan UK-Dakshinee Kolkata; and Pandit Biplob Mondal, Kolkata
Dance: Kathak Team of Smt Sharmistha Mukherjee
In 1926, Gurudev visited Italy as Mussolini’s guest even as the clouds of Fascism lowered over Italy. This brought him the condemnation of the world’s press, which Gurudev found hard to take, and his musical genius suffered. As autumn approached, the blue skies with the fluffy white clouds made Gurudev desperate to return home. His heart cried like a bird flapping its wings, longing to get back to its nest. It was while sailing on the Baltic Sea that the first song after a long drought came to him. Through performance and audio-visual footage, we follow Gurudev through cities across Europe, a journey punctured by illness, up to the point when morning ragas and the clear skies of Bengal’s festive season set him free him to bury his
traumatic journey like ‘sharp blades of grass’.

Collaboration : Impresario India

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