Tsunami @ Short & Sweet 2011 : Dance

Early this year I was inspired to dance after watching a show. At first it was going to be a solo piece and as I was thinking of what to do, anger became the focus of my emotions. As I was looking for a story it slowly dawned on me to do Tsunami from the view point of mother nature. What started out as a solo piece became bigger and bigger and finally emerged as a group dance.

Tsunami starts with the evolution of mankind as mother nature dances and guides the birth of humankind. After a full cycle of life where she guides them, she returns to her meditative state. For a while they follow her path and soon they break away to create chaos in the world. We cut trees for no reason, we hunt animals for the joy of it and we kill our own people for greed and power.

Each time we do this, we are hurting mother nature herself and soon she boils in anger, anguished by the pain of seeing her own dead she erupts into the Tsunami.

Chaos reigns as mother nature terrorises land with her waves. As fast as it started it suddenly ends and she returns to her meditation only for the cycle to continue.

Choreographer and Dancer - Visithra Manikam

Dancers

Cheryl Withaneachi
Laveenia Sivalingam
Thineswari Govind
Music: AR Rahman
Mixed by: Aravind AM, Chennai
Video by Jasnita

http://www.klpac.org/?p=4403

'Tsunami' was performed at KLPACs Short & Sweet: Dance from 12 - 15 October 2011 at Pentas 2, KLPAC, Malaysia.

http://www.klpac.org/?p=3521

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• dance
• dancer
• visithra
• bharathanatyam
• tsunami
• environment
• nature
• mother nature
• kali yattam
• anger
• rage
• chaos

[visithra]

Thanks ;)

[visithra]

Thanks for the lovely comments iruhdam ;) its ar rahman of course its awesome ;)

[visithra]

Mrblazedk - thanks for the comment - the music took some time to find but was perfect - thanks to a friend for finding it for us

[visithra]

Thaprem - thanks so much. Wow you definetly got the costume vision i had - the lighting also emphasises the red in the drama part ;) the venue of the performance allows me to explore ideas n theres a liberty to it so im glad my experiment worked ;)

[visithra]

Thinesh ;) share it n glad you enjoyed it

[9455715947]

Amazing .....

[iruhdammarch]

It's here! :D Great performance! :D and great choice of Music too! :D

[MrBlazedk]

Awesome dance there sis!!wished it could have gone longer nice choice for the background music...all in all..awesome!!keep it up sis!!!

[thaprem]

The emotion is intense and dramatic. I like the way you used the black in the dresses to highlight first the harmony and then slowly the badness of the deeds and then the finality of mother nature's anger!. The dashes of red to highlight the moods. A different experience for me to have seen Bharathanatyam used in a non-conventional way to emphasize a contemporary theme. Splendid.

[anarene]

Fantastic! Thank you for the upload Visithra, and truly a wonderful experience gained :) Hugssssssssssssssssssss