KANNIKS KANNIKESWARAN

COSMIC DANCE HALLS
(ADavallAnin aindu sabhaigaL)
September 1998

 

 

 "A classical dancer's delight..."

"The tunes are fresh in  my mind even after 7 years..."

"Very innovative music ..."

The Cosmic Dance Halls, a musical feature celebrating the five revered Dance Hall temples of Shiva Nataraja. This work weaves the legends around the five dance halls in a musical framework based on south indian classical music, and it draws selectively from the tamil hymns of the Nayanmar saints of the 1st millennium CE. The Cosmic Dance Halls was choreographed by Kalaimamani Saraswathi Sundaresan and was performed at the Patteeswarar temple at Coimbatore during the Natyanjali festival in 1998 and has been featured several times on the state owned television network Doordarshan.