Tuesday, April 30, 2019

World Dance Day 2019: Dancing or transferring?


Transferring energy through Dance: Why should we Dance?

Transferring energy is shifting a vive or vibration from self and expecting the same from the other side. The ability to do work may come from different ways: Heat (thermal), Light (radiant), Motion (Kinetics) etc. Energy is useful depending on its requirements. Without energy no success is possible. A real success that helps you to share the way of success and inspire others is positive energy. That delivers is a transferring the self inspiring energy leads to wonderful world.



The energy level is always felt with the strength of a dancer in a deep sense. While they give vibrant movements and parallely the eye coordination that expression is the sole way about inner strength and ability. The importance of Dance is not limited to one’s body and thousands visions, it also means a different but vast responsibility to keep up the pace. The waves of movements may vary person to person but the energy level is equal. That energy is created by the dancers through their dedication, practices, resilience and joyousness. The happiness of dancing is while the dancers share their nonverbal communication by means of mediums and installation. A dancer feels great joy to keep up the matter into their own way challenging a bright feedback from all!
But can a dancer be responsible too?
What a dancer can achieve is it possible to transfer that?
A real artist cannot. But a Guru can. The absolute understanding of Dance is also found in the universe: in vacuum, in sound. Guru actually evolves the possibility of dancing ability among the disciples. With that deep connection a dancer able to see life amidst everything including non-living being. This is nothing but an acceptance of whole universe and time.
On this special day of world Dance day, I am intended to reciprocate about by transferring energy. It is realized as shifting a vibration from self and expecting a vibe from other side. Dance, in this sense, is a meditation through movement. After dancing, our mind get into a reflexive and a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. Like the meditation, Dance also helps to acquire strength and self belief.  And that is the most important thing in today’s world.
Along with the strong mind, it’s so easy to develop our mind and able to connect. Dance helps to develop mind and co-ordinate the body together. So, it is utmost wise to nurture the mind making it fresh and positive. But how come?
Nurturing the mind and then preserve it can be more appropriate when a dancer takes the theme or subject of her/his performance or more clearly practice. Unlike the body, a mind is also needed to nurture itself acquiring power to reflect a subject. The reflexive ability or the Dance is on the other hand is a continuous process.
Process of creative imagination: step 1
Imitation of nature or natural being including trees, animals and birds are always present in Folk dances. The creative idea with the natures has brought us recently to a dense forest. The forest is well equipped for taking shelter by the tourists. From a distant height the tourists can see rhinos, elephants and other animals with a real view of their walk.

Imagination:

Walking on the grass has given a feeling of natural touch. Even the tress each of them is stood on its own. A tree is a living being, is so much of worthy about environment. The nature that live within us is best be understood by going to the trees around us. The Dancer, to her utmost effort to receive her lost energy moves slowly. She approached a tree. She covers it with colors and sounds. The one of the Panchabhuta has been created and honoured through the kinesics. This is her imagination to receive the same energy so that portion of world can be grown. The imaginary kinesics with the body has the possibility to grow the world. Yes its age of digital nomad, but why not a day to reach the nature? And let check the self with the power.


Indeed, Dance is a physical energy. This is a long term experience that it also helps to grow mental strength. The factors and the fuel behind this are very much latent and When there is a physical action taken by the body, we feel out of all shortage. I must say this as a inner power to get into the work. 

The experiences, but, are not only to practices. Its very necessary to deliver. The delievering either by education or by any other way of transferring is subtle today. Do we remember when grandmother is asked 'Tell a tale!' because the telling itself is a sharing and thus delivering a lot of things to the listeners: the body language, the speech, the art of speaking etc. etc. Looking back to grandma's tale and her lap of affection, the ideas that we developed through our imagination is so much helpful today that anybody must accept the Folktales are the best way of educating self. Being a Dancer, i loved to be with the nature: the way that the nature is absorbing and giving us resources whenever we ask for.


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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Chabi, tumi moi aru amar katharee: A book review

A bilingual collection of poems titled Chabi,tumi, moi aru amar katharee written by Munindra Narayan Bhattacharyaa, A translated version is added into the same volume by a noted literateur Debashish Bezbaruah. The book is outlayed with a frame of a painting titled 'Hungry' (Oil in canvass 36"x44") by the poet himself has shown a deep rooted knowledge about connectivity. A connection between saranga kala (xastha kala) is perhaps the best way to generalise the creative Art. The process is leaned a thin layer over one another and that is so well focussed and cleared in this book that one must read it. While reading the book, turning the pages one after another I recollect a famous dialogue among the folklorists' tea table that ' epic says we all are connected '!! well, very honestly I must accept that when there is focussed a very tiny object, the mind may turn into a deeper thought. And we discover a thoughtful mind, by strange, we get the ability to enter into the world of ART. 
The art of doing and looking at the world whreas fold an unique expression integrating all of us. It integrates all of us and around us.
In his collection of poems, the poet symbolises physical and metaphysical. In other words, a clear periphery of being (you, me,we etc.) and non being (painting and poems) and there is a bridge between this two always. It stimulates (bibhab) with an emotion (bhaba) and gives really a scope to understand beauty with simplicity and a trend of gossip matter. There should be always necessary to look a back date for a while when he expressed through the verse 'pisuai ahibo lage' (A few steps backward ,page no.141).There is a much back date when people were superstitious and this bounded all to bind up together. Even if it has an important role to curve good relationship.The page no. 141 satired a tension between son-in-law and father-in -law is beautifully escaped by a belief of cat. That a cat, while cross a road one should step back for a while. The poem signify a moral passes through to a son in law not by demand but by a belief. Its ironic if they really talk to each other in some society!
Similarly other poems which have raised questions and this is, most probably, the poet resembles his vision as 'hunger'.The cover page of this painting hence is found  very much appropiate to the text.
More or less, the poems specially (Rritu utsavak loi, Beya khabar eta ase, Dekha hoi mur, Pathajatrixakale) have a narration. The narration that shape his niche from lore  ( lullaby, vernecular faith of tulasi plants and Hindu god Rama and many more ) to a determination to help the tiredsome practitioners ( bhagori porise neki aayotixakal ). This is obviously the poet is talking about his helping hand to those sufferers of the society who attain blindness of a practice. The crescendo in all trance actions in human life is  also present in continuous flow of beliefs and tradition in his observation. Despite of this, he respects the artistry of a poet and repeatedly denies that he is a poet.And why not? Lets imagine a spontaneous flow of thoughts of colouring as if there are stroks of colour brass,there are colours and a selfishless effort to bind them over a canvass.
The vission that a poet can carry with his powerful words is very much vibed in those expression when its said 'pitritwa'  (fatherhood), not only to take pride of it but also sharing this with the utmost beloved. This perhaps the cause for which the emotions cross over physical being and stop with nature such as 'karabi tree' that rest of the flowers such as 'nahor', 'keteki' and 'bakul' flowers are silent because of their inconsistance geometry. The poet, that's why, sure about the vission of 'karabi' flower: a clear vission about future,present or a past.
The book indeed reflect a connection between nature and human, flowers and poetic birth, abandon folklore about metaphoric relation and a systemic mechanism of human body and mind.Wheather an advice to detect the difference between the cucko and crow, or, an heartiest wish to exhibit himself but not as a 'judassh', or otherwise a challenge or wish to welcome death for those whom no one can defeat. His emotions leads to thougtful divission by a straight line where waves of ages merge everything.
A cosmic idea is coming to my mind that there is a 'Baitarani' river between life and death and we are going across through lord shiva. That 'Baitarani', i would, prefer to resemble the word 'line' (page no. 141) between being and non being in his poem. And the poet stands himself as a observer of life from light to dark and beyond. Suddenly, an essence of protest is mentioned which the poet felt since when his father and even before the grand mother wanted to raise voice for patriotism. And when there is a writing pen for protest, there is also a mechine 'prism' through which multi colour can  be created. So, with these, he is now again determined to clean himself within the heart to create something very constructive from the day with an usual morning sun.
Pages are slowly passing down, turning a mind into different direction : and its made a shape of mind with a self believed determination. The poems indeed are image making of all of us and  around us and the concept of 'acceptance' is taken but with a silent preservation of self determination.
Above all, it has been found a very important poetic expression for people that covers all the facets of human life, creativity and passages from relations, Nature and clarity. I believe the modern period really needs to look back its past with a close connection of all beings.