Sai's Bharathanatyam Arangetram Last year, we got an excellent opportunity to photograph the portraits and Arangetram coverage of Bharathanatyam performance by beautiful and talented Sai Radhakrishnan. Bharathanatyam is a classic dance that originated in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.

The amazing hand gestures as means of communication and the delicate neck and eye movements by Sai showed many years of her practice in perfecting this dance form. This first set of photos taken in advance of her recital for use in her invitations, program booklet as well as for the custom sign-in book which we designed for Sai. You'll notice all of the colors in these advance portraits are intense against a deep black background. This helps to create a really stunning set of visuals for everything we design and print.














Following the portrait session in April, we covered the amazing performance by Sai for her Arangetram in August. Arangetram in Tamil means "ascending the stage". The 2-3 hours debut performance was filled with high energy and amazing display of delicate dance movements. The beautiful background images along with colorful stage lighting created the perfect ambience for capturing this dance form on the stage.

As with all staged performances, we don't use any flash so what you see here highlights all of the intense colors as intended for the audience in the auditorium.







This very dramatic lighting with additional shadows is something we look out for since the lighting is part of the story.










As mentioned up above, we designed a guest sign-in book for the Arangetram which was available for all of Sai's guest to view & leave messages on the day of her Arangetram. We also created a custom designed album of Arangetram recital itself. We will be posting the blog for the layouts of the albums soon so check back!

Congratulations Sai for an incredible performance!

Labels: Arangetram, Bharatha Natyam, Dance, Performance, Recital, Stage

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