Their principal soloist, Bijayini Satpathy, is stunningly proficient, awesomely powerful and magnetic, sublimely sensual–a breathtakingly gorgeous performer; I just couldn’t take my eyes off of her, and I’m not the only one as a mere dance aficionado. I went with a few professional dancers and dance students representing several different forms, one a renown Kathak dancer, none of them Odissi dancers, yet they all agreed, Bijayini is awesome, and deserves the largest possible audience. She, particularly, performed beyond my highest expectations; I shouldn’t have had a cup of coffee before the show, because her performance was so sensually captivating it nearly put me over the edge into cardiac arrest, no joke! I literally thought I was having palpitations. It was really good to feel that high after a dance performance, after a long time for me.

I just want to add that I’m in no way attached to this group, I just love dance. From this sincere appreciation of dance, I am compelled to defend Nrityagram’s magnificent performance this year and in years past by calling out Anu and Payal’s previous disparaging comments about them as utterly clueless.

Thank you Nrityagram! Come again soon!

Given the topic of this post, I hope it is dance fighting.

look for the surly brown fellow with an uneven goatee)

Is your mother going too?

Oooo..ddaamnn!! That was wicked Coach_D!! but i love it )

Stop tryin to get me in trouble.

I do that enough all by myself.

Email me for details.

I read the NYTimes reviews (and the UrbanEye email) and went to see it last night at the Joyce with great expectations. I have to say I was a bit disappointed. The choreography is great, however there were a couple dancers who were technically off. There were several spots where the dancers weren’t 100% in sync. There were a few moments last night where I noticed dancers falter and start to lose balance when they were holding a pose. I’ve been to several arangetrams where teenagers have put on flawless performances. I expected more from a professional dance troupe. Maybe they were having an off night?

I’ve seen them several times over the years and they’ve definitely gone downhill since Protima Gauri died. Idont think anyone would’ve said they were ever top drawer performers, but lately their performances have been sloppy and amateurish at best and downright painful at worst.

look for the surly brown fellow with an uneven goatee)

Is your mother going too?

Oooo..ddaamnn!! That was wicked Coach_D!! but i love it )

i’m easily the most surly and aloof character you’ll ever see–but if you hear a clicking noise you can follow the sound directly to my right shoulder, which I’ll be testing out (by shadow bowling) throughout the night.

mom and dad–si.

you should come and mingle with the collars-up crowd! (if only to poke fun at my SRK stylings–lacking his Gallic profile, i’ll have to pay someone to break my nose several times over like Mijares did to Navarro on saturday night)

Nope. Tickets are sold out.

No scalping action?

Isn’t Nrityagram the brain child of Kabir Bedis wife. I think the lady passed away long time back in some freak accident in himalayas, wasn’t aware that organisation is still alive. Wish they had it in LA!

yes, I believe it was Protima Bedi/Gauri’s brainchild–but something that hardcore can never die! (or at least fade from memory)

please people, save me from another debacle where I get the best seat and moon after the headlining lady for 3 hours (I’m so sorry, Anoushka Shankar, but I was an idealistic-and-testosterone-charged lad back then)by coming out to the performance at Modlin and saying hi.