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...program, with extensive notes, tried to help a Western audience which stood in need of help; but who expects a miracle from program notes? "As always in Mohini Attam, the dance by its comment essentializes the story from the point when Dharmaraj, chief of the Pandavas, is tricked by the evil chief of the Kauravas into gambling away his birth-right. . ." "Like Zeus, Krishna had many loves among the heavenly nymphs and the Gopis." Even Western mythology, in the drama of Sophocles, for example, is an acquired taste for us these days. It may have brought the Greeks a catharsis...
...York last week, besides Kathakali (about 1,000 years old in some forms and hence a Johnny-come-lately), the Rao troupe also danced the nearly 4,000-year-old Bharata Natyam (the Drama of Bharata). High point of the program: Mohirti Attam (the Dance of the Enchantress), in which Dancer Rao proved herself a virtuoso performer. This dance had become so corrupted and eroticized by courtesans that it had been banned from the temples. Shanta, swathed in dazzling silk, danced it in its uncorrupted style, although her weaving, swaying interpretation was still sexy in a highly stylized...
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