Festival of Indian Dance Schedule Announced

http://baltimore.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=30923
8/8/2005

Excerpt: The performances include ... Nayikas Dance Theater Company
... an all-male Odissi dance company on tour from India, they will
present 'Ardhanarishwara'. This piece explores dimensions of the
primordial androgyne, both as the mythographic diety Shiva, and as the
human being who transgresses or otherwise blurs gender-divides.

Excerpt: The performances include ... Sudarshan Belsare
(Massachusetts): A transgender performer, Sudarshan Belsare is
perpetuating the classical tradition of Stri-Vesham (female
impersonation) where the target gender identity of a woman's psyche
and body is the medium to communicate Nayaki Bhava (the voice of the
female protagonist) in the traditional Bharatanatyam repertoire.

I love Indian dance and music and even Bollywood movies.