{"id":898,"date":"2014-02-21T04:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T22:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=898"},"modified":"2014-06-04T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:52:21","slug":"astad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Astad Deboo : Interpreting Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astad Deboo with Salaam Baalak Trust at Auroville\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlULLR35krY?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span id=\"inserted9404\" style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span id=\"inserted9776\" style=\"font-size: 14px\">Astad Deboo, with the team of Salaam Baalak Trust presented Interpreting Tagore on 20 February. It was performed to a packed Sri Aurobindo Auditorium at Auroville, Tamilnadu. The Inquirer team had reported on <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a title=\"Astad Deboo: Performer with a cause\" href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=88\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Breaking\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a title=\"Astad Deboo: Performer with a cause\" href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=88\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Boundaries<\/span><\/a><\/span>, their performance in Pondicherry in 2011. We were back again for a meditative evening with Astad Deboo who is an internationally celebrated dancer and choreographer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_905\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\" wp-image-905 \" src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"Astad Deboo and Radhika Khanna, editor, The Inquirer, with Aurovillians.\" width=\"240\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018-520x245.jpg 520w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018-720x340.jpg 720w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-018.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">Astad Deboo and Radhika Khanna, Editor, The Inquirer, with Aurovillians<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span id=\"inserted624\" style=\"font-size: 13px\"><span id=\"inserted6113\" style=\"font-size: 14px\">Astad Deboo has put his training in Indian classical dance forms of Kathak as well as Kathakali to create a dance form that is unique to him. He is a pioneer of modern dance in India.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">In this performance Astad Deboo worked with the young boys of the Salaam Baalak Trust. It included four pieces, Surrender, Your Grace, Walking Tall, and Awakening. Your Grace used three dancing ten-foot figures of the goddess Devi, made by Anil, one of the performing artists along with Muhammad Shameem. In Walking Tall, based on Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s popular song Ekla Cholo Re, Deboo transported Tagore\u2019s call for<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_908\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0506.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-image-908 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0506-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Astad Deboo: The Whirling Dervish\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0506-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0506-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0506-1024x648.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0506.jpg 1759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt\">Astad Deboo: The Whirling Dervish<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span id=\"inserted7154\" style=\"font-size: 14px\">hope in the setting of boardroom meetings between dancers and corporate executives. The high point of the 80 minute performance, Awakening, Deboo\u2019s solo piece, ended with the whirling dance or Sufi whirling that is associated with Dervishes.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;font-size: 14px\">Interpreting Tagore had renditions by Japanese composer Yoichiro Yoshikawa, Frederico Senesi, Alio Die, Bill Laswell, Kodo Drummers, Mari Boine, Jan Garbarek and Liro Rantala.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_907\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0466.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-907\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-907\" src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0466-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreting Tagore: Walking Tall\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0466-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0466-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0466-1024x605.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0466.jpg 1976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpreting Tagore: Walking Tall<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_904\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-904\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-904\" src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreting Tagore:  Walking Tall\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006-520x245.jpg 520w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006-720x340.jpg 720w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Astaad-Deboo-001.MOV.Still006.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpreting Tagore: Walking Tall<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_906\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0438.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-906\" class=\" wp-image-906  \" src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0438-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreting Tagore:  Walking Tall\" width=\"240\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0438-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0438-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_0438-1024x600.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpreting Tagore: Walking Tall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Radhika Khanna<\/span><br style=\"font-size: 14px\" \/> <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"> Editor, The Inquirer<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Tathagata Mitra<\/span><br style=\"font-size: 14px\" \/> <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"> 1st M.A. Mass Communication<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.5em\">Photos: Tathagata Mitra<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;font-size: 14px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Camera: Radhika Khanna and Tathagata Mitra<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: right\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Editing: Tathagata Mitra<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px\">\n<div style=\"display:flex; 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