Swapnasundari
On the 10th day of December, Swapnasundari presented Vilasini Natyam at the traditional space of Chandralekha, Besant Nagar. She began her recital with a 500 year old Pushpanjali , which she learnt from Bhaarathamma, Devadasi associated with Vedanarayanaswami Temple, Chittor. The Slokam describes the various flowers collected and offered to the Lord and the hastas used to represent these flowers were according to the hasta mudra sampradaya.
The next piece was a padam in Mezuaani abhinaya (Presenting abhinaya in a seated position), composed by Perayya Linga kavi ( Mukhari, Misra capu) and she learnt this from Saridey Anusuya. This padam was usually done by the devadasi during the ekanta seva, where she swings the Lord and sings this song. The nayika asks Lord Madhava to go away and come later after sunset and says” If my husband sees you, I am gone!” This nayika usually considered as a parakeeya , Swapnasundari artistically considers it as a sveeya. The variations and the hands she did for the pallavi, where she asks Madhava not to get angry about this and come back later was mind blowing. The high spot was her exit, when she sends away Madhava and as soon as her husband enters, she acts like an uttama as if nothing has happened!
She next presented a Javali belonging to the Mysore courts in Jhonpuri ragam set to aadi thalam. In contrast to the previous padam, the nayika here is a sveeya whose tone we normally associate with a parakeeya. She comes to claim her nayaka from another woman’s house and supports her companion (as all the wives do) by saying that he is so innocent and must have come to your house by mistake. The instances where the nayika tries to barge into the other woman’s house and doing all that she can to obtain her husband was very funny and filled with hasyam.
She concluded her recital with a tamil keerthanam, “Chittam Eppadiyo” ( Nadanamakriya, misra capu) by Vedanayakam Pillai. It is a sarva samarasa where there is no particular Lord or God head. The poet asks the Lord “What is the eternal design that is waiting for me?” The bhakthi filled keerthanam was a blissful finishing to the recital.
Smt. Vidya Srinivasan on the vocal handled the pieces watchfully as it is very difficult to sing for a manodharmam packed artist. Violin was by Sri.Srinivasan and mridangam was by Sri.Sri Ganesh.
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