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Anita Ratnam presents three dancers

The A List. An evening of three dance recitals. Presented by dancer-curator Anita R. Ratnam. So what is the A List all about?

Lectures over Three days: at Kalakshetra

The three-day 'Kala Samprekshana' conference of lectures and demonstrations (Dec.22 - 24) hosted by Kalakshetra on its campus for a first-time visitor or occasional rasika would have been a welcome diversion from the hectic sabha-hopping evening schedules to attend concerts in the city.

Music in the Esplanade zone of Chennai

In the chaos of roaring traffic, busy shoppers and hurrying office-goers of the Esplanade zone of north Chennai, the art deco-styled Rajah Annamalai Manran auditorium stands up, holding up to those who have time to stop and stare, a Madras of the 1950s.

'Kumara Sambhavam' opens festival at Kalakshetra

Kalakshetra presents a huge contrast to all the campuses of the city's sabha halls. Its green, sandy, quiet sprawling campus in south Chennai is the legacy that founder Rukmini Devi Arundale imagined for this day.

Four Senior Artistes honoured

You cannot but realise that a wedding hall has been converted into a concerts space when you step into Ethiraja Kalyana Mantapam on TTK Road in Alwarpet in the city. But then Indian Fine Arts Society (IFAS) does not have an auditorium of its own and the hall in Alwarpet is its best option.

Awards for Mannargudi Easwaran and Meenakshi Chittaranjan

There is a tradition that only one Chennai sabha maintains year after year when it launches its annual festival of music and dance. The unfurling of its flag on a mast inside the sabha campus in Mylapore.

This Walk was Themed on the 'Season'

So what is the famed December Season all about? Why does it take place only in Chennai and why at this time of the year? And why did sabhas come to be founded? And how did Mylapore become a hub for classical music and dance?

Award for mridangam vidwan Manargudi Easwaran

You have to battle T. Nagar's traffic to get to the auditorium inside a school campus where Mudhra's festival of music, dance and drama is held every year. It had rained that day and life became a tad difficult in trying to negotiate battered roads.

Honour for Four Artistes

Four senior artistes were honoured with awards on the opening evening of Narada Gana Sabha's Iyal, Isai and Nataka festival for this December Season on the evening of Dec.13 at its auditorium in Alwarpet, Chennai.

This sabha and honoured artistes remember services of arts promoter

It was a time to remember a man who had devoted many, many years to the fortunes of what was once Nungambakkam Cultural Academy and now called Chennai Cultural Academy, which provided classical music and dance concerts to the rasikas of the T. Nagar neighbourhood of Chennai.