Poetry lovers to see' Marathi poems this Sunday

VADODARA: This Sunday evening, a group of artistes will make an attempt to present poetry in a unique form to the audience. The poems - all in Marathi language - will be presented through Indian classical dances at C C Mehta Auditorium. The dances have been composed on a variety of poems and audience will be able to visualise the words through performance put up by the artistes.
It is for the first time that an effort is being made to reach Marathi literature and poems to masses through dance form. "Marathi literature is very rich and our poets have written poems for every occasion of life. Right from childhood to romance and nature, we have a large collection of poems. I just wanted to reach Marathi literature and poems to people in a form that could connect with them," Sandip Chitre, who has conceptualised and produced the entire event, said.
People are forgetting Marathi poetry amid the clutter of various forms of entertainment. We want to revive the dying interest in poetry, especially that of youngsters. All dances and moves have been choreographed according to the poem's theme and contents," Chitre told TOI.
The artistes will represent the poems through kathak, bharatnatyam and other Indian folk dances. The audience will be able to relate to the poetry as some of the poems have been taken from school textbooks, while others are based on themes of romance, spiritual love, separation and nature. The event named Kavya-Painjan' (poetry and ankle-bells) has been composed by Shashank Fadnis, while Riddhi Fadnis, Swati Fadnis and Manjiri Patwardhan have choreographed the dances.
"About 13 dancers will take part in the programme. Poems of legendary poets like G D Madgulkar, Vasant Bapat, Sudhir Moghe, Kusum Agraj, B B Borkar and others have been selected. I am sure that people will remember all these poems once they see them in eloquent dance forms," Chitre said.
tushar.tere@timesgroup.com