LĀ SYA TĀṆḌ AVA BHARATANATYAM Dance Video Dr. Janaki Rangarajan

Bharatanatyam dance video exploring the dual energies of LĀSYA and TĀṆḌAVA through the Pañcamahābhūta 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