Event Index — Striking a balance

Aditi Mangaldas, a Kathak danseuse from Delhi will present a programme called Footprints on Water at Tata Theatre. Shuba Mudgal is the acco...

Aditi Mangaldas, a Kathak danseuse from Delhi will present a programme called Footprints on Water at Tata Theatre. Shuba Mudgal is the accompanying vocalist, singing music which has been composed by her. The dance will be a sojourn through the six seasons of India in their various colours and feeling as one season dissolves into another. Says Aditi, "I have been at crossroads, trying to choose between the traditional and contemporary dance, wondering whether it is possible for both to co-exist.

So Footprints on Water is as much about seasons as it is about one form flowing into another." Shuba too, is trying to straddle the differences between the modern and the traditional. "My work can never be completely alienated from its raag-roots. Yet other genres also get incorporated and adapted in my music," she says. The programme has been organised by Jindal Arts Creative Interaction Centre with Economic Times and Drishtikon Dance Foundation.On September 26, 1997 atthe Tata Theatre, NCPA. Time: 6.30 pm.Through the eye

Emerging Technologies is releasing an 18 part half-hour video series called Masterpieces of the Art World. It takes the viewer through world cultures putting various revolutionary movements in the global historical perspective. It also touches upon art acquisition habits of royal patrons.

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The series has been put together by a team of American technicians headed by Sandra Carter. It covers art and architecture from the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia to the post-modern era. However Indian art has been given a miss in the nine hours of video and the price pushes art back into its ivory tower realm.

A prohibitive Rs 32,500, Emerging Technologies is offering a festival discount for art lovers, bringing it down to Rs 25,000. Though the series has received rave reviews, it might have to look harder for deep-pocketed buyers.For details, contact Abhinav Agarwal at 2187795 and 2188068.Blending styles

Rajashree Shirke and Vaibhav Arekar have choreographed a dance presentation calledRitu Shringar. It will be performed along with other senior members of the Lasya Academy of which Shirke is the founder-director. This experimental venture will be performed in four parts: Krishna Panchali, Shiva, Astitva and Ritu Shringara. Krishna Panchali depicts Draupadi as a woman caught at the crossroads of destiny, as a person with feelings and emotion. Shiva is portrayed as Kala and Nataraja. Astitva is about the individual identity existence of things that move and breathe in the world. While Ritu Shringar explores the sentiment of love between a man and a woman in two different stages — the meeting and the separation of the two lovers.At the Tata Theatre, NCPA on September 30, 1997. Time: 6:30 pm.In black and white

Kiran Chopra, a Mumbai- based painter, is exhibiting her oil paintings at the Mahalsa Art Gallery. All her work is done in black and white and these colours, says Kiran, mirror her inner self and expresses her deeper thoughts. The subjects of her intricate paintings vary from the rush of city life to idyllic villages to the maze of a woman’s mind. Her works are in the collections of Indian Oil, Khaitan, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal among others.

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From September 23 to September 30, 1997. At Mahalsa Art Gallery, Centaur Hotel, Juhu. Time: 11.00 am to 8.00 pm.