Bal Gandharva

from saubhadra

as Saubhadra

http://shelf3d.com/n9bB6WhGw18#Bal Gandharva sings 'Vad Jau Kunala'

the helpless sister of Krishna who is to be married to Duryodhana sings in her chanbers, to her female attendant, taking her hand, leaving it, letting her hand out as she sings.. natya sangeet- the bodies on stage like sound boxes, the hand is just the projection, like a passive stylus the palms move in broad, almost puppet like gestures. the costumes glow and gleam, especially the Paithanis on the women, the jewellery shines, the flwoers gleam, but all to decorate the beautiful sound boxes that are the characters who every keep breaking into short song, as they singing, testing the thoracic cavity, letting more sound out, letting it take cicuitous routes within, letting it leap, and curve and soar and clap in the singing itself to anticipate the claps from the audience krishna as the lover who sings to the decorated, beautiful rukmani with the stagelights on her and saubhadra, the homely sparrow, the idea of sweet, sulking domesticity, dressed in bright pink, then in haldi kumkum colours- the two of them get the most claps. "once more, once more" shouts the audience, in english itself