“ONE WOMAN” BALLET WITH UMA SAHRMA AS “STREE

“one woman” ballet with Uma Sahrma as “STREE  on 29^th February, 2012
 

Uma Sharma’s “STREE” is Every-woman. The form is dance. Classical Kathak with new format. A solo ballet. The woman is supreme. Man is only a symbol. The music accentuates, the narration helps clarify history.

But the presentation by Uma Sharma is in a manner in which content does not become argument. It remains pure dance. Aesthetically and visually, it is an art experience. It is the theme which is the argument. Any theme is, even if you depict nature. The way you depict it tells you whether it is beautiful or ugly. The comment is always implicit. If Uma Sharma succeeds in communication through her art what it is to be a woman there is no argument there. It is a statement. A kind of statement that can come only from an inner fire because she too is a woman and through her art because she is a dancer.

Dance choreography by Uma Sharma and Music by Pt. Jawala Prasad.

Script: Aruna Vasudev

Lyrics: Rifat Sarosh

Lighting: Nitin Jain

Uma Sharma as “Stree”

Narrators: S.M. Zaheer (Urdu), Abhinav Chaturvedi (Hindi & Sanskrit) 

Pt. Jawala Prasad has composed the haunting music. Rifat Sarosh has written the evocative lyrics, which suggest, describe and evoke the moods of the “woman” as she goes from the joy and the pride, through humiliation and subjugation to her final manifestation as today’s “Durga” – independent and strong.

                           

The performance will be at Kamani Auditorium on 29^th February, 2012. I will be inviting leading lady personalities from different fields, viz. Dancers, actors, lawyers, politicians, social workers, bureaucrats, painters, and parliamentarians etc. who will be honored.