Adhyatma

With Sikkil Gurucharan (Carnatic vocal) and Aranyani Bhargava (Bharatanatyam)

Accompanists: Sumesh Narayanan (percussion); and Juned Khan (sarangi)

 

Concept and dance choreography – Aranyani Bhargava

Musical composition – Sikkil Gurucharan

 

Adhyatma or the metaphysical is one the major themes that poets in India have engaged with. Annamayya, is a 15th century Saint who composed thousands of poems describing God through the eyes of the devotee. Adhyatma is branch of his philosophical work which deals with addressing the mind and realising the harsh realities of the world while surrendering and sometimes hesitating to surrender at the feet of the Divine. The poems have been taken from Prof. David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao’s book God on the Hill which served as a reference point 

 

(Collaboration: Seher)