The Kathak dance evening featuring talented dancer Monira Parveen Happy’s solo performance and group dance recitals choreographed by her, saw a happy audience on Friday.
Happy is a student of Nrityanchal and also an ICCR scholar at Rabindra Bharati University. Recently, she completed her under graduation from Rabindra Bharati University on Kathak dance. Now, she is doing her post graduation there.
The main theme of the evening is designed by dance guru Sandip Mollick of Kolkata with the co-operation of Monira Parveen. The programme started with Happy’s solo performence named Ganesh Vandana - an offering to Lord
Ganesha. With graceful moves and skillful postures, Munira’s performance showed how a devotee offers her ultimate respect to God.
The cheering audience seemed to love her lively presence on stage. On her second performance of the evening, she performed a pure dance number of Kathak. The performance had a tendency to follow a progression in tempo from slow to fast and ended with a dramatic climax.
A video documentary showing Monira’s dance Guru’s comments about her skills and dedication was also screened at the programme.
Later, a group of Nrityanchal dancers gave a performance on Tarana which enchanted the audience. Then another pure Kathak dance piece by child students from Nrityanchal was staged which bagged positive comments from the viewers.
Monira gave few more solo performances performed on Tarana and Thumri which proved her versatility in pure Kathak. Her exclusivity of footwork simply wowed the viewers.