KOCHI: The fourth edition of the Museum Fest at the Kerala Museum Amphitheatre will take place from the 9th-11th December at the Kerala Museum Edapally, Madhavan Nayar Foundation. The event will showcase music, dance and theatre from across the country, and will run alongside the Kochi Biennale Collateral Show, ‘Pond Near the Field’, a collaboration between the Kerala Museum Visual Arts Centre and the KiranNadar Museum of Arts, Delhi.
The festival begins on the December 9 with Rukmini Vijayakumar from the Boston Conservatory, Ballet and Bharatnatyam dancer, and founder of Raadha Kalpa, presenting a dance ensemble and solo performance. Her productions, dynamic direction and unique choreographic perspective roots the contemporary in tradition and is delightfully refreshing. She has been appreciated for her unique style and dynamism at performances all over the world.
On the second day of the festival is a classical treat by rising stars, with a violin concert by Vidushi Apoorva Krishna. Disciple of Guru Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam and Guru Anuradha Sidharth, Apoorva has performed in the Madras Margazhi Music Festival, Cleveland Tyagaraja Aradhana Festival and many other leading sabhas all over India. This will be followed by vocal recital by Ashwath Narayanan, recipient of
Kalki Krishnamurthy Memorial Award for the year 2016. He received the Shree Shanmukhananda M S Subbulakshmi 2013 Fellowship, and is also the winner of the Hindu Saregama M S Subbulakshmi Award 2013. He has conducted concert tours to the USA in Spring 2014, 2015 at the Cleveland Aradhana Festival.
‘Akshayambara’ presented by ‘Dramanon’, Dramatist Anonymous, founded by Sharanya Ramprakash uses both modern theatrical tools and the dance-drama form of Yakshagana. It was recently nominated in eight categories at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META)’16, Best Male Actor and Best Director and script. Sharanya is actor, director and playwright of the drama.
Sharanya is a Theatertreffen International Forum 2016 scholar. Her latest work ‘Bangalore Bureau of Future Information’ was presented at the City of Mannheim, Germany for the 2016 edition of the Schwindelfrei Theatre Festival.
Passes will be available at the office of the Kerala Museum, Edapally and the Rotary BalBhavan, Panampilly Nagar. For further details, contact 0484 4020506, 8129051880