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The show must go long
Most audiences, and most dancers, now lack the patience and stamina to experience Bharatanatyam in its original, full-length Margam form. A Seshan says the dance must be rescued from the “boiling pot” For a millennium preceding the British Raj, Bharatanatyam had a glorious history. By the time of the Raj, however, the institution of the devadasis in Tamil Nadu had gone into decline. Devadasis
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