Excerpts from Select Reviews
“Her feet dance, her eyes and hands do the talking….. fascinating experience as she executed aamad, that, tode, tukde and paranas with an electrifying display of footwork, body gestures employing the eyes, neck, chest, lips, hands in perfect coordination….through a mesmerizing dancing spell….” |
| (S.D.Sharma, Indian Express, Chandigarh) |
| “Words fail to describe the mind-blowing performance by Kathak guru, Padmashree Shovana Narayan. Lensman Umesh Verma of Moonlight caught the phenomenal 27-chakkar series done by the maestro. She repeated the series immediately once more after the audience requested her to do so….” |
| (The Hitavada, Nagpur) |
| “A Swirl and Twirl… Kathak dancer, Shovana Narayan performs the dance ‘Antar Yatra', based on verses of Sufi poets…” |
| (Saab Press, The Asian Age, Delhi) |
| “Dance all the Way….It was a spiritual journey on the symbolic route of life, courtesy danseuse Shovana Narayan….combined with the taal of the ghunghuroos which matched perfectly with expressions of turbulence of the soul on Shovana's face till her final journey to tranquility that had a lasting impression on the minds of the viewers” |
| (The Times of India, Delhi) |
| “When her feet made music…. As always, she imbues a magical, mesmerizing quality to a dance form in which she defies the barrier of gharanas with fluid ease……and finally as she made her ghunghuroos dance to the rhythm of thunderous applause, she and Spicmacay had made a connection” |
| (Nonika Singh, HT,Chandigarh) |
| “….. danseuse Shovana Narayan gave a spellbinding performance to the tunes of Jaago Swayambhu…..” |
| (Gautam Siddharth, The Pioneer, Leh) |
| “Mention the dance form of Kathak to Indian audience and they will think of Shovana Narayan, the premier Kathak performer” |
| (Pawit Mahasarinand, Bangkok) |
| “Asavari Dance Group of Shovana brings Indian culture north”(Rose Cox, Anchorage Daily News, USA) “A warm Kathak in the Alaskan cold” |
| (Suleman Din, Anchorage, USA) |
| “Conversation in the idiom of dance… It was clear from the audience response at Hotel Ashok's banquet hall on Thursday evening that the mesmerizing fusion between Kathak and Flamenco was yet another winner from Shovana's repertoire of innovative dance performances….' |
| (Poonam Goel, Hindustan Times, New Delhi) |
| “Kathak – Flamenco jugalbandi by Shovana, Omayra….. ‘such a remarkable show has seldom been witnessed in Delhi' commented many in the audience….” |
| (Janak Singh, The Indus Times) |
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