Aparna's Fan Girl
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bethlakshmiI admit it - I'm a fan girl of my teacher. :) It's good - it means I love learning from her. So... now I pimp for her:
My teacher - Aparna Sindhoor - was one of the choreographer's for this movie:
http://www.anandabhadram.com/
She did the choreography for two of the songs. Her husband was the executive producer. The movie will be in Malayalam - the language of Kerala on the Southern tip of India. I assume for American release it will be dubbed in English.
This is by the same director who did (in a partnership with another) - Ashoka - the very spiffy movie about the ancient Buddhist Indian king.
I'm getting endless delight from this - as Bhairavi and I spent a while trying to figure out how to steal dance moves from Ashoka. I can only assume that the dancing will be a little bit more traditional, and quite Southern, given my teacher's background.
But... this film is not period, not documentable, or anything that would hold up in the SCA... But it does seem to have a lovely fanciful quality to it, which makes me really interested in seeing it. I'm also really intruigued by the neat menu page in the flash site. It has a few issues - mouseover areas are a little too small for easy usage, and it's just a tad too dark, but the effect is really neat.
This is not the geeky Indian Laurel you are looking for.
Just an excited fan-girl.
My teacher - Aparna Sindhoor - was one of the choreographer's for this movie:
http://www.anandabhadram.com/
She did the choreography for two of the songs. Her husband was the executive producer. The movie will be in Malayalam - the language of Kerala on the Southern tip of India. I assume for American release it will be dubbed in English.
This is by the same director who did (in a partnership with another) - Ashoka - the very spiffy movie about the ancient Buddhist Indian king.
I'm getting endless delight from this - as Bhairavi and I spent a while trying to figure out how to steal dance moves from Ashoka. I can only assume that the dancing will be a little bit more traditional, and quite Southern, given my teacher's background.
But... this film is not period, not documentable, or anything that would hold up in the SCA... But it does seem to have a lovely fanciful quality to it, which makes me really interested in seeing it. I'm also really intruigued by the neat menu page in the flash site. It has a few issues - mouseover areas are a little too small for easy usage, and it's just a tad too dark, but the effect is really neat.
This is not the geeky Indian Laurel you are looking for.
Just an excited fan-girl.
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addendum
Date: 2005-10-11 05:32 pm (UTC)Aparna's next email says she is flying back to do the rest of her research for the next month and a half. The need is urgent - her PhD involves interviewing a lot of old people ( not to be crass - but they could croak any minute), and so she needs to make sure her research is done in a timely fashion.
She'll be gone a month and a half starting NEXT WEEK. This is 1/2 good - the Baby Doll show was gonna have me out of commission for 2 weeks, but it mostly sucks as I really, really missed class, and I can't imagine going another month of no lessons - it will be over 6 months now without more than a few weeks here and there. I need to keep going with regular classes, if I'm gonna get better.
But... I REALLY don't want to take with another teacher - she's really, really good. She's got a depth I don't see in most Bharata Natyam dancers and teachers in this area. And her style is particular, and I don't really want to corrupt it with other stuff.
I may go take some Kathak for a little Something Completely Different...
Sigh... arangetram goal - you are very far away right now.