LĀSYA TĀṆḌAVA - BHARATANATYAM- Dance Video- Dr. Janaki Rangarajan

Bharatanatyam dance video exploring the dual energies of LĀSYA and TĀṆḌAVA through the Pañca-mahā-bhūta - the five great elements of nature, which are also an integral part of us. By understanding them, I seek to understand the human self. I have conceptualized this in 3 different ways, which make up the 3 segments in this video. 1. The first segment is an exploration of these dual energies in water as it flows gracefully or more forcefully- two energies encapsulated inside one form. This is also very personal as I see my soul as the water- sometimes my actions labeled feminine and sometimes condemned as masculine. Regardless I am the same, donning different garbs at different times, ebbing and flowing, gushing and roaring, maneuvering my way, just like the water! 2. In the second segment, I have explored the expression of the dual energies in love! I have imagined the earth and the sky to be lovers expressing their love with gay abandon. The sky in a Tāṇḍava way - reaching out to the earth with the warm