Ganesa Natyalaya’s day of Tandava: Shivaarghya 2026
Shivaarghya 2026 was presented by Ganesa Natyalaya in Delhi on Sunday, 1 March 2026. Shivaarghya is an annual festival dedicated to male dancers, instituted by Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan to celebrate male dancers on the occasion of Shivaratri, the festival of the ultimate male dancer, Shiva. It offers male classical dancers a vital platform to showcase their talent in a field that is now dominated by women performers. However, I think that is also slowly changing, and anybody who has been to the festival knows that these men can inspire many more boys and men to take up classical dance. It was Nataraja himself who was there to do the tandava on the Ganesa Natyalaya stage. The first performers were Gaurav Shridhar, Gaurav Javda and Harendra Bhushan , and they presented The In Between, a contemporary Kathak trio. Next, it was Manish Kumar , presenting Bharatanatyam. He presented a Ganesh Vandana and Madhava Mamava. Rahul Varshney presented Odissi next; he performed a Kr...
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