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The birthday of Rabindranat Tagore is celebrated with Indian dances (photo)
21 June 2010
Master Klass has held an evening dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranat Tagore – an outstanding Indian writer, composer and painter, and the first non-European Nobel laureate.
The Ambassador of India in Ukraine Mr. Debabrata Sakha took part in the evening. And the Ambassador of Bangladesh Mr. Amir Hussein Sikder made a congratulatory speech, too.
The dances “Fire” and “The Beauty of Death” performed by Mykhail Krivchuk were the most interesting parts of the evening. This choreographer was the first in Ukraine to professionally start learning and popularizing the Indian dancing art. In the 13 years he lived in India, M. Krivchuk graduated from two universities majoring in the Northern Indian classic dance Katkhak and Southern Indian Bkharatanatyam. It is an achievement for any Indian, let alone a European, to achieve professional skills in these quite different styles.
After the concert the spectators were able to watch a documentary “The Story of Gitandzhali” told of how R. Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It is considered that the decision of the Nobel Committee was influenced by a book of poems “Gitandzhali” by Tagore, the popularity of which, among the Indians was so great that many of them considered these poems as national art. One of the songs from this collection “Dzhanaganamana” was so popular that it became the National Anthem of India after independence. Moreover, Tagore is the author of the lyrics to the anthem of Bangladesh.
By the way, in the film “You Wouldn’t Even Dream It” there is a song “The Last Poem”, lyrics by Rabindranat Tagore (translation made by Adelina Adalis, music: Oleksiy Rybnikov) from the novel of the same name.
The organizers of the evening were the Tagore Centre of the Eastern European Institute of Development and the Culture Centre Master Klass.
