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8th March Saturday
International Womens Day.

Nehru Centre Worli. 6:30 pm

Narmada "the story of a river"

An oddissi dance ballet.

Conceived and choreographed by Jhelum Paranjape.

Featuring: The Smitalay Dance School

Smitalay, so named by Jhelum Paranjape in memory of her dear friend and
critically acclaimed actress Smita Patel, is the dance wing of the Sane
Guruji Arogya Mandir, a registered cultural & educational charitable
trust.

Activities at Smitalay include imparting rigorous and complete training
in the Odissi dance form and constantly producing innovative original
dance ballets.

For the past decade, Smitalay has been annually celebrating
international women day by presenting a performance exclusively
choreographed with "woman as the central theme.

This year the ballet is called NARMADA

Narmada is a story of the river; about its beautiful and bountiful 
nature and life giving force. It is the story about life on the banks,
and the adivasis who pray to her and call her mother.

Narmada is also about a fiery woman who single handedly took on the 
world to fight for a peoples sustenance  the woman the adivasis of 
the valley regard as an avataar of the mighty river itself.

Narmada also depicts the river as a woman-a woman with many moods,
sometimes vivacious, sometimes joyful and sometimes full of anguish. A
woman faced with choices, confrontations and constrictions. A woman who
combines strength and continuity, conflict and resolution.

Narmada is indeed about the very essence of a woman.


Narmada makes neither a political nor ecological statement. It merely 
tells us what the river embodies, thinks and feels.

Guest of honour: Medha Patkar

For more information: please contact Jhelum Paranjape: 98202 16315.

Tickets available at Sane Guruji High School, Santacruz(W) and Nehru 
Centre, Worli.

Rs 200, Rs 100, Rs 30.=20
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