Celebration of Kali: Goddess of time and timeless through dance

Dance production still from Mahakali. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Mahakali. The name exposes either extreme devotion or fear. Kali is known to represent the ultimate reality, which is beyond the scope of time and darkness. She is described as an incarnation of feminine power, power and flexibility. And, these are the great qualities of the deity, which is a dancer-professor, Dr. Anuradha Ji Tadkamalla closes, for the concept and choreograph the dance Mahakali.

Anuradha and Art India Foundation, Hyderabad team, will perform Mahakali Later this week in Bengaluru, as part of the ninth version Nayika – Celebrating femininity 2025Shambhavi School of Dance, presented by Bangalore.

,Mahakali There is a work that was initially made as a dance film during the epidemic. We took various forms of the goddess and Kali is depicted as one which is dark skin, wearing a garland of skull. This was the form I attracted the most and a research about it was deeply prepared, ”on a call from Hyderabad, Kuchipudi’s dancer, teacher and scholar say. Anuradha has a PhD in traditions and innovations in Kuchipudi dance.

She says that Kali whom Kali discovered, she takes me in a completely different direction, where we see her as the force of dynamic energy – Shankaracharya calls her as a great power. This energy, when seen in our philosophy, is multi -faceted. I started studying. Devi Bhagavatam Many, where Kali is talked about as the force that destroys every evil and darkness. It was a concept that I wanted to present through dance – the cycle of great power, time and time. ,

“Time calculation in our Vedic literature is correct Truti Huge time known as cycle Kalpas, Mahakali It also becomes a means in creating this universe, it has a representation. She represents all those who are dynamic in nature and how we are in this huge galaxy, where nothing stops. ,

Dr. Anuradha J Tadakamalla | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Anuradha, who has also written and edited books Celebration of life: a collection of writing, Photos and remembrances on Vedantam Raghavaya, Telangana Lo Nritim (Telugu), Kuchipudi dance, who is To make some names, talks about the perception of time.

“Western philosophy sees the time in a linear format – with a beginning and an end. In our philosophy, time is cyclical. It is also installed in a concept Mahakali, Where the end is not seen as an end, rather seen as a stagnation before a new beginning. The subject is associated with a dance with Maha Shakti and The Black Hole, which is again associated with Kali, which absorbs everything in itself. ,

Anuradha, Telangana government and Padma Shri Dr. The Shoba Naidu is a reception of the Women’s Achiever Award 2023 for Nidu Lifetime Achievement Award. He is currently the head of the dance department at the University of Hyderabad.

Mahakali will be demonstrated on March 15 from 5.45 pm at Seva Sadan, Malleshwaram. Entry free and open to all.