The month of January also witnessed a beautiful evening wrapped in cultural and artistic richness – ‘Nrutyaparv’. The event was graced by Dr. Shri Girish Vaghani. He is currently the Vice Chancellor at the Maharaja Krishna Kumar Sinhji, Bhavnagar University.
This evening was a culmination of a fruitful and one and first of its kind of collaboration between MicroSign and the ICCR. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is an autonomous organization of the Government of India under the administrative control of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). ICCR’s regional office for Gujarat was established in the year 2012. The ICCR brought the talented duo to the city of Bhavnagar.
For us at Microsign Products, this collaboration with the ICCR, Gujarat was a matter of the win-win situation. The Culture for Excellence at Microsign Products is always keen on encouraging and showcasing talent, while the ICCR helped us take this objective forward.
The entire Universe is full of rhythm around us. Our innermost language is that of dance and movement. The myriad forms of dances in India allow us to experience and express deep happiness. On this note, we had the immense pleasure of hosting Shri Bharat Baraiya and Shri Akshay Patel at the ‘Nrutyaparv’ in Bhavnagar. They are well versed with folk dance forms as well as classical dance forms from all of India. They boast of National and International fame for the talent they present the world with. They have not only stunned audiences across the globe but have also conducted workshops and seminar to spread the knowledge further. If compiled at some point, their performances would easily amount to video recordings well above two thousand CDs.
Shri Bharat Baraiya hails Halol, a small village in Gujarat. He was trained by field stalwarts at the Darpan Academy in Ahmedabad. Having learned and grown under the tutelage of great Gurus, he was dedicated to being a professional dancer and broke boundaries for the same. He explored more forms of art as well – martial arts, folk, and tribal dances and Bhavai – the folk theatre form prevalent from Gujarat. He even began his own training institute in 2008, called ‘Nrityavali’. Right from the year 1986, he has several awards to his credit, along with a professional with notable names from Hollywood as well.
Shri Akshay Patel was also trained at the Darpan Academy, having lived in the vicinity and having been inspired by the talent around. His long stint at Darpan took from the intense training for Bharat Natyam to exploring various forms of contemporary dance, Kalaripayattu, theatre, lighting, and the other allied fields. He has traveled far and wide, both within India as well as globally for group performances of classical and folk dance forms. He was the co-founder at Nrityavali along with Shri Bharatbhai. He also brings along a long list of awards and accolades to his name, along with having professionally been associated with talented artists from India as well as Hollywood.
The night of 13th January witnessed a very different experience at the Yeshwantrai auditorium. The people of Bhavnagar watched in rapt attention as the two talent houses presented refined and fusion forms of art, using classical and folk dance forms as their roots. Being experts in all these areas, they left us with a rich experience of art at its finest. Bhavnagar has always warmly hosted artists across multiple forms of art. The people here are already aware and receptive to such events and hence they happily turn up on nights such as these. We feel happy to see what we do not have to push people for events like these. It is an organic process, and everyone is happy about what they see and experience. The artists were able to connect with the audience, leading them to be involved to the extent of shaking a leg themselves.
