Artwork of Radha Sarma- Dancer & Choreographer

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Thank you

Radha Sarma

The 7th Arangetram of Radha School of Dance will be coming soon…

Nirosha Kamalaraja is the 7th of mine. Each student of my different dance classes over the last 1 1/2 decades got the ability and the knowledge to delvin this Art.
Classical Indian Dance requires the synchronisation of the eyes and gestures to suit the music. It teaches concentration to every dance pupil by an intensive pedagogic work through a Guru.
Arangetram is becoming most populer and beloved in Europe. The Indian dance is divine. The dedication of all activity to the divine is the highest form of worship. The relationship of Guru and Shishya, teacher and pupil, is unique, the pupil serves his teacher with “ steady devotion” and the teacher leads the pupil from the darkness to the light.

The training for Bharatha Natyam will take a minimum seven years
under the direction of nattuwanar/guru (teacher), who with their assistance, criticism and appreciation, helped in the keeping up of the proper academic and artistic enviroment needed for the art.
For the proper and full exposition of Arangetram, it requires to be having an emotional and intimacy together with a hamonic effect. It is only revealed by the talent of the dancer, nattuvanar, mridangist as well as the singer.

Radha Sarma

Classical Indian dance in Hamburg

After a successful Arangetram last year in Toronto, Abirami is performing again in Hamburg.

And also I would like to inform you of the forthcoming Arangetram of
Miss Nirosha Kamalaraja:
a talented girl from Sri Lanka – living in Hamburg – will delve into this wonderful challenging progress on 20th of June 2009.
May my Lord “Nataraja” bless these upcoming young dancers.

INdRA

Now it is time to write about my „INdRA“.
INdRA – project has been founded in November 2008…
Since 1994 I have been performing Classical Indian Dance with storytelling. Late Ms Zainu Arnold from Wolfsburg had started to work with me and it went further with Ms. Ruthild Tillmann, and Ms. Ursula Rumpf…my sincerely thanks gose to all of them to make such a good experiences and a lovely memories.

With this experiences I met Ingo Keil and INdRA came to live.
Ingo Keil is a professional sculptor, bi-lingual storyteller and a tango-dancer since 1999.
He lives and works mainly in Germany, for tango he is a world wide traveller. His preferred material for sculptures is bronze and one of the subjects in his artwork is tango, its embrace and its movements.As a storyteller he is a graduate of the School of Storytelling at Emerson College in the UK. He performs in homes for the elderly, schools and other venues with regional stories from the south of Germany, stories by Wilhelm Hauff and folk tales from all over the world. Together with me he is combining Indian tales and classical Indian dance.

Words create worlds
Dance tells stories

Our first Performance “Krishna Sharana” will tell about Lord Kirshna… his birth, his childhood, about “Kaliya Narthana”- his dance on a snakes head and his love with Radha.
And in the second half of the performance we will present two of the ten Incarnation (Dasavadar) – the Kurma and Narasimha… also stories of Mahabaharath >>more

“Krishna Sharana” will be on 25th of April 2009 in Music Accademy in Braunschweig at 5 pm.

With best regards
Radha.

Tango workshop with Komala Vos & Stefan Wimmer

The year 2009 starts for me with Tango Argentino…

I am glad to organize A workshop with Komala and Stefan from Nijmegen / Holand.

On 31st of January and 1st of February, at Musische Akademie in Braunschweig Neustadtring 9,

it’s not the (amount of) figures what makes the dance; it’s the connection and the moving in the music with your partner.

Komala and Stefan:
With their warm. enthusiastic, dynamic and playful approach they stimulate you to learn to feel the music and to translate and express this into smooth, relaxed but still powerful movements. Obviously they enjoy teaching and dancing but they never take themselves too seriously. Working with the students to learn the complicated looking movements, it’s simplicity what counts for them. The ultimate goal has to be that everyone feels the freedom to move with his partner in the music and express himself without the limitation of fixed patterns.

About the time shedule and the prices please write to me, I´ll send you the information:
radha_sarma14@yahoo.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It’s finally Christmas time and my wishes to all of you…
This year ( 2008 ) has given me many performances and workshops in Europe and abroad, so much happiness, challenges and successes. I met very interesting people, made new friends and was introduced to new working partners.

I wish you all Merry Christmas and a prosperous Happy New Year!

To the organizers of my Performances, workshops, and those who helped me to make my shows a success.
It was a pleasure working with you and I hope you enjoy a delighful New Year. And I’m looking forward to a wonderful Year 2009

To my Family, Friends and my dear Students
All my Love and my warmest wishes for a healthy, successful and bright New Year.

And last but not least to all you visiting my site. It has been a tremendous step going online and I’d like to thank you for your participation and wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The first snow weekend and My Performance on 22nd of November.

This weekend was very interesting… first my car seemed to be on a strike and didn´t wanted to start… therefor I had to rent a car… which was a Renault – Twingo (I like that name) and on 22.Nov. Saturday morning I went to Goslar for dance lessons… lovely white snow and Indian dance with new students was fantastic…which makes me realize just how much the interest in Indian dance is increasing in Germany

In the evening I enjoyed dancing again for DIG Winsen e.V.
When the Indo – German-society in Winsen had been founded 10 years ago, I was the fist artist there. Well organized and active society in north germany.

The classical Indian dance is not based on a momentary fantasy and expression of the intelligence of one single artist on the stage. the art is based on solid structure of ancient treaties and scientific method founded once by the “rishis” of ancient India of a great civilisation.

Radha sarma

24th of Nov. 2008

The joy and energy of the movement

The Classical indian dance is a form of yoga – physical energy with spiritual power.

Yatho hasthas thatho thrishti – Where the hands goes, the eyes must follw
Yatho thrishti thatho manah – Where the eyes goes, there should go the mind,
Yatho manas thatho bhava – Where the mind goes, the bhava created
Yatho bahvas thatho rasaha – Where the bhava appears, rasa or sentiment will arise.

The links between Music, dance and drama were extremely close to each other. Dance itself be divided into tow parts.
1.The pure dance : this is a clear expression of movements.
2.The interpretative dance : through the use of gestures and mimetic expression the dancer communicate her/his feelings.

to be able to communicate emotion, – as Leela Samson in her book “Rhythm in Joy” says – a dancer has to be emotionally alive and sensitive, abundantly creative, capable of concentration, uninhibited, inspired and well-versed in the sahitya or verse she/he is enacting.

My next Performance will be in Germany – Winsen/Luhe.
On 22nd of November 2008.
In Stadthalle Winsen, at 7 pm. more about
Best regards
Radha Sarma

Diwali in Braunschweig

Deepavali (the name has shortened to Diwali) is a national festival in India. “Deepavali” literally means a row of lamps (Deep is lamp and “avali” means row or line) Today it is celebrated all over the world as the „Festival of lights“ The festival marks the victory of good over evil, and uplifting of spiritual darkness. Diwali is celebrated on the month of Ashvin(Kartika) more about Diwali…

This year On 8th of November we celebrate Diwali with lights, flowers, sharing of sweets, clasical Indian Music concert and dance shows at Music Academy in Braunschweig.
We are proud to present the Srod player Ranajit Sengupta and Anup Sengupta on Tabla .

we will worship and welcome the Divine Energy for happiness and satisfaction.

On 8th of November at 6 pm at Music Academy – Neustadtring Braunschweig.

My sincere thanks goes to the Music Academy and to Mr. Arup Senguptha for their/his support.

Radha Sarma

Our Performance in Club Martha`s

It is a great pleasure to be here on this stage… it was a bit deficult to work with all together this time…there were students from Indian dance classes, moderndance classes and from Jazz grupp… so I add them all in one music pice…one choreography combines elements of a variety of dance styles…my girls had great fun.
My sincere thanks goes to Clup Martha`s for their support and giving us this opportunity.

Radha Sarma
Mallorca – 21st of Oct. 2008

On 20th of October

From the 16hours training, there are only 2hours left… Now we are 5 days in Mallorca – the days passed as if they were hours. Good food… nice weather…hard training and relaxing time… yes! We are enjoing our stay in Mallorca. Our performance will be this evening (20th of October)… at 10pm…
“ whether it is a given exercise, or free improvisation, one has to learn to let it happen, as contrasted to doing it… the ego learns slowly an attitude towards what wants moving… movement, to be experienced, has to be found in the body, not put on like a dress or coat” (Whitehouse 1963:5)

greeting from Spain – Radha Sarma