They also put me in the community science centre! Everything, by and by, fell off and dance remained to be my life partner!" the 62-year-old dancer said.Įven though she doesn't remember why she chose Kathak as her discipline, she believes it is a style that suits her personality the most. Since, I was enrolled in dance, and music as well as fine arts classes. The dance that comes out of this unique mix of sensibilities, movements and music is akin to a tree "that grows out of that Kathak seed, reaches another part of the sky even though the roots are very much of Kathak".Ĭoming from a family of academicians on one side and business persons on the other, how did dance happen to her? "At a very young age, my parents felt that they saw something artistic in me and enrolled me in different artistic schools. ''As far as my 'contemporary work based on Kathak' is concerned I would say that it is like sowing a seed of Kathak and watering it with contemporary sensibilities, movement, literature, and thinking processes such as structure, stage design, and music," she responds poetically.
".But I do say that most of my work falls within the parameters of either classical Kathak or secondly, what I term as 'contemporary dance based on Kathak'. However, she refrains from calling it a dance language that she has created. After training under legendary Kathak dancers like Pandit Birju Maharaj and Kumudini Lakhia, Mangaldas is known to have developed her own dance style, something that floats in the space between Indian classical and contemporary forms, creating a dance palette that gives birth to a unique canvas of movements and sensibilities. I believe my liberal childhood gave me the courage to question everything, not take anything for granted, and accept that nothing is carved in stone," Mangaldas told PTI in an interview here.
"One must have the courage to dance one's dance and have the courage to face uncomfortable issues. When Kathak veteran Aditi Mangaldas takes to stage, moments stretch into minutes as she goes from one movement to another in her inimitable dance style, moulding a centuries old dance vocabulary into something more contemporary.įor the renowned Kathak dancer, this courage to dance her own dance and question everything comes from a liberal childhood in a family with no dance background.
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