![]() “At first I thought, ‘They ruled the Tamil country for two hundred-odd years. Ganesh’s interest in dance history had been there for as long as she performed, but it was when she was working on her Master’s in Bharatanatyam that she stumbled on the lost repertoires of the Nayak era. “A Peek Inside the Attic”, as the lecture-demonstration at Ashoka University was aptly titled, provided a taste of these sessions to the attendees. Currently, Ganesh is engaged in the project “From the Attic”, a series of performance-projections that draws from her academic work to bring to light the evolutionary and changing nature of Bharatanatyam over the years. Her research into dance history focuses on reconstructing lost Bharatanatyam practices and repertoires. Swarnamalya Ganesh is a known Sadir (Bharatanatyam) dancer, dance historian, choreographer, and tutor. Official poster for the lecture-demonstration ![]()
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