It
was sheer poetry in motion. Visualise heavenly angels
entertaining our earthly eyes with divine dancing. The
poise and grace of swans settling down on a twilight lake
is indescribable. If you were witness to the Bavarian
Ballet that performed in Bangalore, it would have
transported you to a world of ethereal beauty. For the
jampacked audience at the city's Ambedkar Bhavan,
the experience was out of this world. Male and female
ballet dancers enthralled them with such breath
taking movements that the auditorium reverberated with
applause.
The Bavarian State Ballet from Munich was
organized in Bangalore by the Indian Council for Cultural
Relations (ICCR) as part of the German Festival
in
India. This ballet group from Munich city has
been performing worldwide and winning acclaim from the
audience in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Manila,
Budapest, Madrid and the dance mecca, New York.
Now the group is touring the major cities of India,
giving us a sample of their impressive dance tradition.
The performance began with the world acclaimed piece 'Swan
Lake', where a romantic dreamy mood is set over a
moonlit lake. The lovely lake is home to swans who are
really humans transformed by the evil spell of the magician
Rothbart. They can only regain their human form through
the true love of a man. At midnight, they
are allowed to dance for an hour before they return to
the lake. Prince Siegfried, comes to the lake and
is witness to the magical scene when swans become dancing
maidens led by the Princess Odette. The prince
falls in love with the swan princess and swears eternal
love just as the magical powers draw her back into swan
form. This touching dance drama is enacted with a group
of dancers clad in sparkling white dress resembling swans.
The presence of the magician in black dress and a sinister
face, adds to the drama
. Music plays a powerful role in a ballet performance
and sometimes the musician takes the centre stage. For
instance, in the piece called 'Sarcasms'
the pianist is involved in creating dramatic action
situations. It is quite rare to see a classical repertoire
like ballet portraying erotic intentions in a manner so
blunt. This play shows the conflict between man and
woman, dancing in a sarcastically revealing way. Another
play 'Déjà vu' reflects a similar mood between
man and woman, who encircle each other, full of tension,
enigmatic, very earthbound and presented in a modern idiom.
This delightful gift of dance from the German city of
Munich to the IT capital of India was a welcome
change from the usual fare. Bangaloreans still crave for
such visual delights.
It
was sheer poetry in motion. Visualise heavenly angels
entertaining our earthly eyes with divine dancing. The
poise and grace of swans settling down on a twilight lake
is indescribable. If you were witness to the Bavarian
Ballet that performed in Bangalore, it would have
transported you to a world of ethereal beauty. For the
jampacked audience at the city's Ambedkar Bhavan,
the experience was out of this world. Male and female
ballet dancers enthralled them with such breath
taking movements that the auditorium reverberated with
applause. 
in
India. This ballet group from Munich city has
been performing worldwide and winning acclaim from the
audience in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Manila,
Budapest, Madrid and the dance mecca, New York.
Now the group is touring the major cities of India,
giving us a sample of their impressive dance tradition.
are allowed to dance for an hour before they return to
the lake. Prince Siegfried, comes to the lake and
is witness to the magical scene when swans become dancing
maidens led by the Princess Odette. The prince
falls in love with the swan princess and swears eternal
love just as the magical powers draw her back into swan
form. This touching dance drama is enacted with a group
of dancers clad in sparkling white dress resembling swans.
The presence of the magician in black dress and a sinister
face, adds to the drama
arcasms'
the pianist is involved in creating dramatic action
situations. It is quite rare to see a classical repertoire
like ballet portraying erotic intentions in a manner so
blunt. This play shows the conflict between man and
woman, dancing in a sarcastically revealing way. Another
play 'Déjà vu' reflects a similar mood between
man and woman, who encircle each other, full of tension,
enigmatic, very earthbound and presented in a modern idiom.
