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Swarnamalya Ganesh is a professional classical Bharatanatyam dancer with over 25 years of learning and experience. She is a senior disciple of Kalaimamani K.J.Sarasa who is an exponent guru from the hereditary dancing family. Apart from training with some more of the devadasi gurus and nattuvanars she is also involved in documenting their repertoire. She is a trained classical singer. She holds a masters degree in Bharatanatyam from the University of Madras and is currently a Ph.D scholar in dance and a visiting faculty for the Department of Indian music, University of Madras. She gives all her credit to her Guru "Sarasa"
Chennai Margazhi Season - Swarnamalya portrayed contrasting emotions with élan
The depiction of passion using circumambulatory movements of the hand traversing the chakras in the body was at once romantic and esoteric. This was embellished with simple and dynamic jati korvais danced with competence, and the musical refrain of the lines of the sahitya being sung along with the sollukattus, enhanced the theermanams additionally.
Accompanied by a team of musicians led by Nitya and vidya on the vocal, Rakesh (nattuvangam), Parthasarathy on the mridangam and Krishnan with his melodic touches on Harmonium, the dancer explored a padam and javali in the latter half. A Moovanallur Sabhapathy Aiyya padam, which speaks about a nayika who is distressed and dismayed at the physical aberration on the body of her sakhi after her sojourn with the hero, was captured evocatively by the dancer to match the emotional timbre in the voices of the singers capturing the essence of raga Punnagavarali.
The dancer then was able to slip effortlessly into a role that depicted a totally different facet of abhinaya, in a Parsi javali depicting a flirtatious heroine. In this light-hearted javali with a lilting tune Swarnamalya was at her best.The padam and javali with contrasting emotions, dealt sensitively by the dancer made the performance delightful. The dancer needs to pay attention to her costume, possibly by adapting to a sari costume which ideally would be more suitable for her.
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